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• Use iPerf to test the throughput inside an OCI Hub and Spoke VCN Routing architecture
• Site to Site VPN with Static Routing between two OCI Regions using Libreswan as a CPE on one side and the DRG on the other side
• RPC IAM Policy Tool
• Associate Private Views to the VCN Private Resolvers with ATP Database and Oracle SQL Developer in Different VCNs
• Follow the packet inside an OCI Hub and Spoke VCN Routing architecture
• Access and manage your (Linux) Compute instance using OCI
• Configure the OCI Load Balancer to access multiple applications (Instances) using different Domain Names
• Add LB and WAF to a Hub to an Hub and Spoke VCN Routing architecture
• Using OCI Network Path Analyser with On-Premises end-points
• Connect On-premises to OCI using an IPSec VPN with Hub and Spoke VCN Routing Architecture
• Deploy a Windows Instance in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Install a pfSense Firewall in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Route Hub and Spoke VCN with pfSense Firewall in the Hub VCN
• Use Terraform to Deploy Multiple Kubernetes Clusters across different OCI Regions using OKE and Create a Full Mesh Network using RPC
• Use Cilium to provide networking services to containers inside Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes - OKE -
• 20 years CCIE certified
• Using the OCI VCN-Native Networking CNI plugin to provide networking services to containers inside Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes - OKE
• Setting up Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) with three worker nodes
• NSX-T (nested) Lab with (3) different sites (and full (nested) SDDC deployment)
• VMware Cloud Director Basics with NSX-T
• CA signed certs with NSX-T
• Lab:Use OpenSSL to generate the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for VMware NSX (with multiple SANs)
• Lab: NSX Manager deployment (Single site)
• Lab: Replacing the self-signed SSL certificates with CA-signed certificates
• NSX-T IDS end-to-end testing
• Lab:Configuring a Microsoft Server to be a Root Certificate Authority (CA)
• Lab: Configure IPv6 Routing between NSX Segments and external networks
• Lab: Signing the NSX CSR with a Microsoft (root) CA Server
• Multisite (light) Disaster recovery
• Extend the NSX-T default 90 days password-expiration policy
• Extra VLANS on physical infra for vSphere lab (7-SEP-2015)
• Finally - Master of (Computer) Science (MSc)
• Getting started with vRealize Network Insight / Arkin (Installation & Configuration)
• Getting started with vSphere PowerShell PowerCLI and PowerNSX – PowerShell extensions for NSX
• Getting started with vSphere and python scripting (pyVmomi)
• Gitlab, Git and visual Studio Code
• DVS NIC teaming load balancing options and NSX interoperability
• Deploy a NFV Lab with VMware TCA and VCD
• Deploy a virtual Cisco CSR Router with IOS
• Deploying, configuring and testing HCX based migration between my home lab and VMC on AWS
• Deploying the second and third NSX-T Manager Nodes and form an NSX-T Manager Cluster
• Deploying the first NSX-T Manager Node
• Create an NSX-T manager node cluster
• Configuring syslog services on NSX-T components
• Installing Cisco Wireless Control System 7.0 (WCS) in VMware
• Install brew, PowerShell and Terraform on my MacBook Pro running OS X
• Hub and Spoke Layer 2 VPNs between multiple NSX-T enabled sites
• Homeseer 2
• Configuring NSX-T Federation with NSX-T
• Using putty/plink with PowerShell to SSH into an NSX Edge and collect information
• Using OCI to publish an webserver that is accessible from the internet (with IPv6)
• Upgrade NSX-T 2.4.0 to 2.4.1
• Transport Nodes
• The NSX PowerOPS Tool unleashed
• The deployment (issues) of NSX Intelligence VM (version 1) with an HTTP server
• Cisco's new "Cisco Certified Architect" certification
• VCDX Design Terminology
• Nested vSphere Lab with VSAN
• Networking With Raspberry Pi 2
• New Lab Server (2016)
• PART 1: Low level DR and SR internal component routing with assigning it to an Edge Cluster for the Tier-1 Gateways
• PART 2: Low level DR and SR internal component routing without assigning it to an Edge Cluster for the Tier-1 Gateways
• PowerNSX: NSX Security Tags, Security Groups, Distributed Firewall Sections and Distributed Firewall Rules with external CSV files
• My physical network infrastructure (VLANS and subnets) and host hardware
• NSX-T EVPN North/South routing with NX-OS EVPN-based Datacenter fabric
• NSX Managers
• NSX Multisite routing (diagram options)
• Loxx One doorlock system
• Manually installing a (persistent) Firewall Rule to allow IPFIX on the ESX Host
• Lab: NSX Manager backup configuration
• Scaling out your VNF with TCA
• Configure NSX-T URL Analysis
• Lab: Use Postman to perform API requests on NSX
• Virtual router instances Juniper vSRX, Juniper vMX and GNS3
• VLAN tagged interface on the Raspberry
• VCIX-NV
• Terraform: NSX-T infra segments
• Routing with NSX using multiple sites using Locale ID (with eBGP all the way)
• Routing with NSX using multiple sites
• Lab: Multisite Scenario
• Lab:Install and configure a DNS Server using BIND
• Lab:Install and configure a (nested) vSphere SDDC
• Deploying your first VNF with TCA
• Deploy a virtual Cisco Nexus Switch with NX-OS
• Creating a Dashboard in vRealize Log Insight specifically to monitor the NSX Edge Firewall
• Configuring a VIP address across the NSX-T Manager Nodes
• Configure NSX-T Logical Bridging (single profile)
• CCIE Datacenter exam now officially announced
• Configure NSX-T VRF Lite
• Routing with NSX using multiple sites (with iBGP between the UDLR and the ESG's)
• Getting started with the OCI and the OCI Console using your free account
• Books
• NSX-v to NSX-T Migration (April 2022)
• Using the public facing OCI Network Load Balancer (NLB) to expose your web server pool to the internet
• Using the OCI NAT Gateway to allow OCI Instances (connected to a private subnet) to access the internet
• Create an (2-tier web application) OCI Compute Instance web server and use an OCI Oracle Managed Database as the main back-end
• Create your first free (Linux) Compute instance using OCI (with your free OCI account)
• Lab: TOC - Replace CA Signed SSL certificates on VMware NSX
• NSX Inventory
• NSX License and Compute Managers
• Compute, Storage, and vSphere Infrastructure
• Adding the NSX-T Licence
• Add a (vCenter Server) Compute Manager to NSX-T
• SCCP to SIP endpoint conversion (and backwards)
• VXLAN and Unicast, Hybrid and Multicast mode with NSX - the IGMP querier explained
• The nested labs project overview/introduction
• Terraform automation: vCenter Server
• Terraform automation: Virtual/physical network (Cumulus Network)
• Terraform automation: Nested ESXi Hosts (Management, Edge and Compute)
• Terraform automation: NAS Server (CIFS, NFS, Etc.)
• Terraform automation: Control center (Stepstone, DNS, NTP, AD, Etc.)
• Subnet and IP address planning and registration using PHPIPAM
• Static routing with BFD vs OSPF Totally Stubby on JunOS
• Running NSX on top of vSAN (with vSAN Calculator in Google Spreadsheet)
• Resizing SD Card Raspberry Pi to fully use free space
• Only allow specific DHCP servers within your Layer 2 Broadcast Domain with the NSX DFW
• Networking With OpenBSD
• Nesting NSX-T (lab) inside NSX-T (infra)
• Moving Domain Names From One User To Another In Direct Admin
• Interdigit Timeout (T302)
• Install VMware Tools on Ubuntu (trusty)
• Identity Based Firewalling and perquisites needed for NSX 6.2.3 and prior to NSX 6.2.3
• Getting a good NSX-T primer using the VMworld 2018 sessions
• Creating a bootable ESX USB installation disk with OS X
• Create Universal Security Policies with Cross-VC NSX active/active site deployments
• Cisco vs Juniper Commands
• Cisco Data Center Architecture
• Build an NSX-T 2.4.0 Manager-Controller cluster
• IPv6 with dynamic routing and redistribution - RIPng and OSPFv3
• Useful files that will help you with your CCIE Data Center studies
• ISP MPLS core design I (with OSPF and BGP) -- complete with config files and dynamips .net file
• Playing with a Catalyst 6500 and a WiSM blade
• Native IPv6 GRE Tunnel using 2 x Cisco 877’s
• YaDIS demo :-)
• Starting my VCDX-NV journey
• Front Page
• The products used in the Cisco Data Center Architecture
• Use 1 public IP address on 2 sites with 2 different ISP's
• RPF setting and NSX Edges in ECMP mode
• The CCIE Datacenter track
• Store VPN password on iPhone (3.0) IPSec Client
• Power measurement
• Passed the CCIE Data Center (lab) exam ...
• Packet capture of an iPhone 4 Facetime call
• NSX Edges and DRS Rules
• New CCIE exam policy rules applicable from Aug 1 2014
• My PSOD's are finally gone!!!
• My job profile and the Cisco Datacenters
• MPO / MTP cables
• MGCP - The messages that are sent regarding MGCP
• Me doing the CCIE Data Center lab exam ...
• Installing Cisco Secure Access Server 4.2 (CSA) in VMware
• Install Cisco Unified Communication Manager 8.5(1) and Cisco Unity Connection 8.5(1) on VMware
• How to explain the “what” and “why” during the VCDX Defence...
• Full configuration files for the GNS3/Vmware CCIE Voice 3.0 Lab
• Finally a CCIE Voice
• The Master System and Network Engineering
• Diagram for CCIE Voice 3.0 preperation with Vmware and Dynamips/GNS3
• CPU and Memory Reservations for NSX Edges (not changed when appliance sizes are changed)
• Communication Channel Health Check showing down / down
• Cisco certification levels and job roles
• CCIE Wireless Written topics
• CCIE Wireless Home Lab
• CCIE Wireless equipment
• Callmanager Express (CME) 4 on a GNS3 router
• CCIE Video track
• Calculating the maximum troughput of one TCP stream
• ACL hitcounters on a Cisco 6500/7600 series - tracked in hardware and not in IOS
• The ultimate CCIE Data Center lab physical cabling topology
• Logical Design components and the Logical Compute Design
• The Logical Design vs The Physical Design and mapping services and infrastructure to understand impact
• Components of a VCDX design
• Designers vs Administrators
• VCDX Design Factors - Gathering Information, Defining Requirements and Identify Risks, Constraints and Assumptions
• Comics
• Harrison RF-Curtain Rails
• History
• HSTouch iPhone interface
• IRTrans (LAN-to-IR)
• List of devices
• VCDX (all tracks)
• Cheatsheets
• Lab:Replace CA Signed SSL certificates on VMware NSX
• VDS in vSphere Lab
• Introduction to automated nested labs
• Creating an bootable ESXi 6.7 USB disk