Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-22 Thread Sam Park
I started the UC apps on VMware Server 2, then after a year migrated to
ESXi.
Performance is much better.  On Server 2, which I ran on top of Ubuntu
Linux, sometimes the VM's were sluggish, but enough to study with.  On ESXi,
I don't notice that sluggishness.

Also, you could run your Windows OSes on VMWare.  More and more, I'm trying
to run everything I can on VMWare.  As well, since Cisco is pushing
virtualized UC, it would not be wasted effort to learn and use ESXi.

There is a post earlier in the month where I gave some links for ESXi
VMWare.

And to Bill's point about studying on MAC OSX, I use WinXP on VMWare Fusion
on MacBook Pro, since the student PC will be a Windows machine (XP, I
believe).  Run the vSphere client there.

If you mostly use a laptop like I do, then connect a full size PC (not Mac)
Keyboard to study.  Again, this what you will use when you sit the lab.  The
laptop, as well as Mac, keyboards either lack some important keys for
shortcuts or are located somewhere different than during your practices.
Your muscle memory will be thrown off  -  every little advantage helps,
right?

Sam.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 ESXi is loaded via a keyboard and mouse in this situation, after that is
 complete, everything else has to be completed remotely.  You first go to a
 web page, get the VM client, install client and begin installing your
 Virtual Machines (VM's) that is it.  You might want to play with shared
 resources if your system is a little low on memory but otherwise you should
 be fine.

 As far as performance, I find that by using some old SATA disk I had laying
 around and spreading the servers out over several disk, that I can not
 really even tell I am on a VM, it seems as responsive as a real server for
 the most part, sometimes if I am booting another system that is on the same
 HDD that will slow things down so I try to avoid that but otherwise it works
 great.  Much better than multiple machines in a VMware server or workstation
 running in windows or OS X.  The only disadvantage is there is not an OS X
 client but if your doing your IE study in OS X you have to have a windows
 machine to run some things anyway.

 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:18 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 This seems like a doable solution. to dualboot from the bios.

 In terms of quantifying the cost-benefit of going into a ESX environment,
 what would you say the advantages are?

 That is, in terms of speed, is it about 20% faster than a windows
 platform?

 Just trying to put it in numbers to justify the extra work involved =)


 Also, one advantage having my CUCM sit on top of windows is that I don't
 need to hook up a monitor or keyboard to it.

 I have it set to just boot up and run on VNC. Does ESX allow for any type
 of remote desktop feature where I can bypass keyboard/mouse/monitor
 solution?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes you should be able to dual boot, I doubt that the boot loaders would
 work but you could use the BIOS controls to select the boot device.  Some
 systems like Dell/HP ect let you pick the boot device from a menu.

 So if I was doing this, I would load windows on 1 disk, disconnect that
 disk, install ESXi on a second disk, not the same SATA channel.  Then I
 would connect up both disk and use the BIOS to pick the OS to boot.



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box
 for other things occasionally.

 That being said:
 1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?
 2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park 
 upperlevelpark...@gmail.comwrote:

 Answering VMWare question.
 If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

 Sam


 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.comwrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep
 falling lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
 NewEgg this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 

Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VM ware follow up.

2011-07-22 Thread Stephen Manuel
I have no experience with installing apps in VMware, so I went on Ebay and
bought an internal 1.5t hard drive that had CUCM, UC, Presence, UCCX, etc.
already installed via VMware. 

 

I installed the hard drive in a desktop/server I bought thru an employee
discount program, HP quad core 8gb ram,  1t hd, 21 inch monitor for about
$600, adding the hard drive with the apps already installed, cost under
$800. 

 

I installed 2 additional NIC cards in the server, hard set an ip address in
each, installed VM Workstation to access the apps, I had to make some
additional changes to the VM config files to get them to work with my
network setup, but things work very well. 

 

 

 

Stephen Manuel 

From: ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com
[mailto:ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com] On Behalf Of Sam Park
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:57 AM
To: indigoboy
Cc: OSL Questions
Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM  VMware follow up.

 


I started the UC apps on VMware Server 2, then after a year migrated to
ESXi.
Performance is much better.  On Server 2, which I ran on top of Ubuntu
Linux, sometimes the VM's were sluggish, but enough to study with.  On ESXi,
I don't notice that sluggishness.

Also, you could run your Windows OSes on VMWare.  More and more, I'm trying
to run everything I can on VMWare.  As well, since Cisco is pushing
virtualized UC, it would not be wasted effort to learn and use ESXi.

There is a post earlier in the month where I gave some links for ESXi
VMWare.

And to Bill's point about studying on MAC OSX, I use WinXP on VMWare Fusion
on MacBook Pro, since the student PC will be a Windows machine (XP, I
believe).  Run the vSphere client there.

If you mostly use a laptop like I do, then connect a full size PC (not Mac)
Keyboard to study.  Again, this what you will use when you sit the lab.  The
laptop, as well as Mac, keyboards either lack some important keys for
shortcuts or are located somewhere different than during your practices.
Your muscle memory will be thrown off  -  every little advantage helps,
right?

Sam.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

ESXi is loaded via a keyboard and mouse in this situation, after that is
complete, everything else has to be completed remotely.  You first go to a
web page, get the VM client, install client and begin installing your
Virtual Machines (VM's) that is it.  You might want to play with shared
resources if your system is a little low on memory but otherwise you should
be fine.

As far as performance, I find that by using some old SATA disk I had laying
around and spreading the servers out over several disk, that I can not
really even tell I am on a VM, it seems as responsive as a real server for
the most part, sometimes if I am booting another system that is on the same
HDD that will slow things down so I try to avoid that but otherwise it works
great.  Much better than multiple machines in a VMware server or workstation
running in windows or OS X.  The only disadvantage is there is not an OS X
client but if your doing your IE study in OS X you have to have a windows
machine to run some things anyway. 

 

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:18 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

This seems like a doable solution. to dualboot from the bios.

 

In terms of quantifying the cost-benefit of going into a ESX environment,
what would you say the advantages are?

 

That is, in terms of speed, is it about 20% faster than a windows platform?

 

Just trying to put it in numbers to justify the extra work involved =)

 

 

Also, one advantage having my CUCM sit on top of windows is that I don't
need to hook up a monitor or keyboard to it.

 

I have it set to just boot up and run on VNC. Does ESX allow for any type of
remote desktop feature where I can bypass keyboard/mouse/monitor solution?

 

 

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

Yes you should be able to dual boot, I doubt that the boot loaders would
work but you could use the BIOS controls to select the boot device.  Some
systems like Dell/HP ect let you pick the boot device from a menu. 

So if I was doing this, I would load windows on 1 disk, disconnect that
disk, install ESXi on a second disk, not the same SATA channel.  Then I
would connect up both disk and use the BIOS to pick the OS to boot.  



 

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box for
other things occasionally. 

 

That being said:

1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?

2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?

 

 

 

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park upperlevelpark...@gmail.com
wrote:

Answering VMWare question.
If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

Sam

 

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after rebate.

 

It sold

[OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Lake
anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at NewEgg
this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

use code EMCKCHJ37

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A
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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread indigoboy
Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after rebate.

It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep falling
lower  lower.


Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
*
*
*
*
*http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
*




On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
before but still up for debate:

Can anybody weigh in?

Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
32-bit Windows Server?

64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

I'm currently running workstation 6.5

https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




*
*
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at NewEgg
 this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A


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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread Sam Park
Answering VMWare question.
If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

Sam

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep falling
 lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
 NewEgg this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A


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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread indigoboy
I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box for
other things occasionally.

That being said:
1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?
2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park upperlevelpark...@gmail.comwrote:

 Answering VMWare question.
 If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

 Sam


 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep
 falling lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
 NewEgg this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A


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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Lake
Yes you should be able to dual boot, I doubt that the boot loaders would
work but you could use the BIOS controls to select the boot device.  Some
systems like Dell/HP ect let you pick the boot device from a menu.

So if I was doing this, I would load windows on 1 disk, disconnect that
disk, install ESXi on a second disk, not the same SATA channel.  Then I
would connect up both disk and use the BIOS to pick the OS to boot.



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box for
 other things occasionally.

 That being said:
 1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?
 2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park upperlevelpark...@gmail.comwrote:

 Answering VMWare question.
 If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

 Sam


 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep
 falling lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
 NewEgg this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A


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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread indigoboy
This seems like a doable solution. to dualboot from the bios.

In terms of quantifying the cost-benefit of going into a ESX environment,
what would you say the advantages are?

That is, in terms of speed, is it about 20% faster than a windows platform?

Just trying to put it in numbers to justify the extra work involved =)


Also, one advantage having my CUCM sit on top of windows is that I don't
need to hook up a monitor or keyboard to it.

I have it set to just boot up and run on VNC. Does ESX allow for any type of
remote desktop feature where I can bypass keyboard/mouse/monitor solution?



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes you should be able to dual boot, I doubt that the boot loaders would
 work but you could use the BIOS controls to select the boot device.  Some
 systems like Dell/HP ect let you pick the boot device from a menu.

 So if I was doing this, I would load windows on 1 disk, disconnect that
 disk, install ESXi on a second disk, not the same SATA channel.  Then I
 would connect up both disk and use the BIOS to pick the OS to boot.



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box for
 other things occasionally.

 That being said:
 1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?
 2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park upperlevelpark...@gmail.comwrote:

 Answering VMWare question.
 If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

 Sam


 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep
 falling lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
 NewEgg this weekend get 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM for $135

 use code EMCKCHJ37


 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145347nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL072111cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL072111-_-EMC-072111-Index-_-DesktopMemory-_-20145347-L04A


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Re: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Memory for your VM VMware follow up.

2011-07-21 Thread Bill Lake
ESXi is loaded via a keyboard and mouse in this situation, after that is
complete, everything else has to be completed remotely.  You first go to a
web page, get the VM client, install client and begin installing your
Virtual Machines (VM's) that is it.  You might want to play with shared
resources if your system is a little low on memory but otherwise you should
be fine.

As far as performance, I find that by using some old SATA disk I had laying
around and spreading the servers out over several disk, that I can not
really even tell I am on a VM, it seems as responsive as a real server for
the most part, sometimes if I am booting another system that is on the same
HDD that will slow things down so I try to avoid that but otherwise it works
great.  Much better than multiple machines in a VMware server or workstation
running in windows or OS X.  The only disadvantage is there is not an OS X
client but if your doing your IE study in OS X you have to have a windows
machine to run some things anyway.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:18 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 This seems like a doable solution. to dualboot from the bios.

 In terms of quantifying the cost-benefit of going into a ESX environment,
 what would you say the advantages are?

 That is, in terms of speed, is it about 20% faster than a windows platform?

 Just trying to put it in numbers to justify the extra work involved =)


 Also, one advantage having my CUCM sit on top of windows is that I don't
 need to hook up a monitor or keyboard to it.

 I have it set to just boot up and run on VNC. Does ESX allow for any type
 of remote desktop feature where I can bypass keyboard/mouse/monitor
 solution?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes you should be able to dual boot, I doubt that the boot loaders would
 work but you could use the BIOS controls to select the boot device.  Some
 systems like Dell/HP ect let you pick the boot device from a menu.

 So if I was doing this, I would load windows on 1 disk, disconnect that
 disk, install ESXi on a second disk, not the same SATA channel.  Then I
 would connect up both disk and use the BIOS to pick the OS to boot.



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:10 PM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I know ESX would be the fastest but I'd like to be able to use the box
 for other things occasionally.

 That being said:
 1) are drivers a pain to load on ESX?
 2) is there a dual-boot option where I can boot ESX and Windows?



 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sam Park 
 upperlevelpark...@gmail.comwrote:

 Answering VMWare question.
 If you can afford to, go Bare-metal  VMWare ESXi.

 Sam


 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, indigoboy indigo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Last week, the Kingston's 4x 4gb were down to a record low $89 after
 rebate.

 It sold out after two days but I would expect memory prices to keep
 falling lower  lower.


 Kingston HyperX 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3-1600MHz Desktop Memory $89.95AR
 *
 *
 *
 *
 *http://www.techbargains.com/news_displayItem.cfm/261095
 *




 On the other hand, I posted a question that has probably been answered
 before but still up for debate:

 Can anybody weigh in?

 Which OS/VMware version combo is the fastest for CUCM?
 32-bit Windows Server?

 64-bit windows XP / Server / 7?

 If 64-bit, which VMware combo?

 I'm currently running workstation 6.5

 https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2093173




 *
 *
 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Bill Lake whl...@gmail.com wrote:

 anyone with a PC style VMWare server and wanting to upgrade, deal at
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 use code EMCKCHJ37


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Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out 
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