Tyson, I had my first session on PL on Friday night, and this was one of the issues that I ran into. I could not get the servers to reload no matter what I tried (it seemed).
I had another session scheduled for this morning, but cancelled it as a result of the frustrating session I had on Friday. Lucky for me, I have a pretty good home lab, so I can do quite a bit of testing and scenarios on my own equipment, at my leisure. My lab is a mix of current and previous generation(s) of equipment, however, so I can't simply copy and paste the IOS configs into my own gear. There are two reasons that I chose to purchase PL rack time: 1. Convenience of loading the various IPExpert scenarios. 2. Access to a full lab of the actual equipment. What are your recommendations in the short term in the event that the servers will not reload? Thanks, mike On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Tyson Scott <tsc...@ipexpert.com> wrote: > Bill, > > Unfortunately the servers are the number one issue for voice customers that > we can't provide a good solution to in the event these problems happen > again. To provide what you are suggesting below we would have to give > administrative access to the VMware servers. > > I will give you the honest answer as to why would never do it. At least 1 > or 2 times a month someone deletes the flash on the routers/switches in the > pod. This is annoying but manageable as the files are small and we can > simply upload them via the USB interface or xmodem them on the switches. > recovering a server after someone makes an accidental mistake is not so > easily achieved. And it is easy enough to wipe out a datastore with > intended or unintended actions. The datastore per server is 1.5 TB. Not > as > easy/quick of a problem to resolve. > > Regards, > > Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP > Managing Partner / Sr. Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. > Mailto: tsc...@ipexpert.com > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444, ext. 208 > Live Assistance, Please visit: www.ipexpert.com/chat > eFax: +1.810.454.0130 > > IPexpert is a premier provider of Self-Study Workbooks, Video on Demand, > Audio Tools, Online Hardware Rental and Classroom Training for the Cisco > CCIE (R&S, Voice, Security & Service Provider) certification(s) with > training locations throughout the United States, Europe, South Asia and > Australia. Be sure to visit our online communities at > www.ipexpert.com/communities and our public website at www.ipexpert.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com > [mailto:ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com] On Behalf Of Bill Lake > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:15 PM > To: ccie_voice@onlinestudylist.com > Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Proctorlabs not resolving > > Hello, > > I would have to agree that not being able to load the servers > especially is an issue. To work the voice labs you must have the > servers available and configured properly for the lab. While we could > use the downloaded configurations for the routers/switch, we can not > do so for the servers. Also, just having the servers on does not allow > us to remotely load the server configurations as those backups/configs > are not supplied in the Proctor Labs voice section. > > Perhaps as a backup Proctor Labs can provide instructions to power on > the servers remotely without the web page, how to get and load the > configurations for the servers and at that point it could be a > solutions that we could use to work our voice labs. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com >
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