by David Davis on July 25, 2007
On July 24, 2007 Cisco CEO, made his keynote address at the 18th annual Cisco Networkers
conference. This year, the conference is dubbed "Cisco Live 2007" and it was
held in Anaheim, California.
John Chambers talked about Cisco's vision for next-generation data centers,
called. According to Cisco, "the Cisco vision for Data Center 3.0
entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from
shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources, while
optimizing application performance, service levels, efficiency and
collaboration."
Thanks to my colleague, Mr Pile, I bring you exclusive high resolution photos
that were taken "up close and personal".
Check them out!
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by David Davis on July 24, 2007
Recently, in the
Happy Router Forums, new member
kb3edk, posed a great question about the difference
between ARP, RARP, and inverse ARP. I felt that the answer to this question
might help others and, especially, those studying for the Cisco CCNA exam. So
what is the different between these three? Let's find out…
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by David Davis on July 20, 2007
Recently, I
attended the VMware Symposia in
Dallas, Texas, USA. This event was free and was put on by VMware to promote
their virtualization offerings.
I must say
that I was highly impressed by all that they must have spent and prepared for
this event. There were 100s of people there and it was at one of the finest
hotels in town, the Gaylord Texas Resort.
I have
authored
training videos on both
Microsoft Virtual Server and
VMware Server & recently obtained my VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
certification so I felt very confident in the current state of my virtualization
knowledge. Because of this, I wasnt sure that I would learn a lot from the
event. I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to learn so much about the
future of VMwares virtualization line-up. I took copius notes. When I got back
to the office, I rearranged and cleaned up these notes.
I post these
notes here so that all the HappyRouter.com members can benefit from the latest
virtualization what I learned at the VMware Symposia.
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by David Davis on July 11, 2007
What does Cisco SmartNET do for you?
Recently, I had a friend who was buying some equipment
ask me if they should buy Cisco SmartNET services for the new equipment they
were buying. I explained to them that SmartNET does three things for you-
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by David Davis on July 10, 2007
Recently, I received a PM from a HappyRouter.com member,asking for help in selecting equipment for his CCNA studies. There are a ton of choices out there and a lot of vendors trying to push equipment on new users that they may or may not need.
In the dialog below, you will see how I made the following recommendations to our member:
1) You don’t have to buy equipment for CCNA preparation but it will help you learn more and retain what you need for the test
2) Only get the most basic equipment needed, such as Cisco 2500 series routers. In fact, you should be able to spend no more than $300 to get a couple of routers and a switch.
3) For learning concepts and seeing how things should work in the Cisco IOS, take a look at the Train Signal CCNA videos - they cover the whole gamut of router, switches, subnetting, VLANS, and more. Plus, they come with study questions and a lab book!
The conversation on this topic follows….
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by David Davis on July 1, 2007
David Davis (CCIE #9369, VCP, CISSP, MCSE) has been in the IT industry for 15+ years. He has authored over 300 articles, 6 video training courses, and co-authored one book. Learn about David's certifications, video courses, and where you can find his content on our