This wouldn't be a complete website without a personal blog! I'll post what I feel like as well as any updates with the site. Posts that are older than 2025 were from a previous personal site I started in 2021, right after my ciscoskills website. I think one of things that I've learned about writing online is that once you start with certain content its hard to break out of that. So what I'm hoping with this little blog space is a way to mix my technology passions with some life events, Enjoy!😊
Last weekend I was with my family on a trip to the City of Rocks. The City of Rocks follows the California trail, one of the major routes used by emigrants heading out west during the 1800s, amazing history with the promise of land, gold and freedom. These are transitions that people make in their life, marking the end of a chapter, and beginning a new one with the hope their life becomes better than it was before.
So I've been a follower on this software for over a decade. Originally called Cisco VIRL back in 2014, Cisco CML 2.9 was released in July. I've now had the chance to play around with it and here are the main hits!
So although its been a little quiet over here, my life hasn't! Let's just say I've been trying to get a handle on my next career move. What I'm finding is, this current job market is not so great. I'm still working at my current job but our team is getting smaller and the project that I'm on is starting to see the sunset on the horizon within the next year or so. How do I get ahead of it?
One thing that can be suggestive is naming conventions... It has to have meaning to you and the organization. I have seen some pretty interesting naming conventions and although I make no promises that what I have is the end all of naming conventions, I have been doing this for awhile. I find this method a pretty good system and easy to understand. So let's get started!
This is just a short little update with another section completed. Learn about Switch Administration within the CCIE section. We are talking about MAC address, L2 MTU and Errdisable. I keep moving up on the topics so the next topic will likely be spanning-tree so stay subscribed to the RSS feed or check back often! I have also adjusted the categories, anything with CCIE is going to be about the CCIE section. This will help keep the organization of the website instead of putting that into the general category. A little house-keeping here and there as I'm still getting the layout of this website completed. - Enjoy! 😊
Well..if you were wondering if changing the IP address of Cisco FMC still works of when I originally posted six years ago...It does! I was running FMC 7.4.2.2 at as of this post and following my own advice works pretty well. It's also funny that although I'm working with a different company, we had the same goal -- Migrating data centers!
When I first had an idea for this site I wanted something that would stay pretty consistent. However humans although may not like the idea of change, often change things frequently. If you read through some of the past posts you'll find that although this site was a spur-of-the-moment idea I wanted to really make sure its something I'll enjoy making content on. As well as an easy way to find information you may be looking for. Although some people might enjoy my blog posts I also wanted to make sure the CCIE section is a good documentation resource. So with a couple of nobs turned, buttons pressed and switches thrown this site is now using Material for MkDocs
Something kind of interesting I stumbled on was moving some virtual machines around to a different ESXi host that doesn't have to same storage backend. So they were copied over manually and then imported within VMware vCenter. The machines were running Red Hat and although they were connecting to the same network the operating system was using a different interface name like ens33 instead of ens192.
Alright this is just an update that VLAN Technologies section within the CCIE section is completed. I have been working on this for past of week and have also updated the layout of the CCIE page by putting the current version that is out as of this writing.
So I've been learning about administrative distance and updated my first CCIE topic Administrative Distance. One thing I learn about was this phrase called "Ships in the Night". So when I first saw this I paused, because it reminded me of a song from Mat Kearney.