But, they truly believed in me and my colleagues to figure it out and gave us the leeway to work through it, which we did. I'll always appreciate that level of trust when I needed it the most.
20/100
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To continue from Wednesday.
We double checked the VMWare functionality and found that VMotions were not working.
There is nothing worse than moving all of the physical connections in a data center and having to move it back.
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I'll post the back half of the story on Friday.
19/100
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The design of Labs 5-7 brought back a memory of a time when I completely failed, but had the trust of management to push forward.
This is a story in two parts.
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If you're asking yourself those questions, the answer is pretty much always, "No."
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I was telling this story the other day, and I figured it would also make a good post. The gist is "your corporate network is not your lab."
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I'll be posting an official blog entry for Ramen Inc. early next week that will include screenshots of the product from the portal and the handheld side.
18/100
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We had an excellent turnout at the KC USNUA inaugural event last week! I met a bunch of new people and I am really excited on where this will go in the future!
17/100
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Lab 4 is the culmination of the past two labs. We can now migrate workflows from our legacy network to our new network with minimal downtime.
The goals of this lab are the following:
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In my last post, 15, I discussed the consolidation of the SSIDs and how only half of the students were using the secure network.
How did I force the students at my University to move to the secure SSID?
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A lot of students would go through the click and accept steps on the guest portal EVERY single day.
Tomorrow I'll go over how we "fixed" that issue.
15/100
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As part of our summer of consolidation, we also added a new secure and guest SSID without a special character. This is not something you can do on the fly, as it does require some planning. Here's how we went about doing it:
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Next week I'll post Lab 4 and I'll talk about cleaning up the SSIDs and our strategy / shenanigans to get students unto our 802.1X SSID.
14/100
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In post 8 I talked about the need to consolidate three different WiFi systems on campus. I wanted to dig a little bit more in the methodology around that.
Often in Higher Ed there is only one time to make large-scale changes and that is when
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Looking forward to the feedback on Lab 3 and to see everyone tomorrow at the MO NUG Event in KC:
events.bizzabo.com/708974
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13/100
In lab 3, you will build upon the dynamic routing in lab 2 and expand this to the edge.
The goals of this lab are the following:
1. Enable BGP on campus-edge-01 with Arista cEOS
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one at a time, to the new network in a non-disruptive way.
A lesson learned that you don't want to burn a bridge if you don't have to.
I'll use tomorrow to post lab 3, rather than double posting today.
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12/100
To continue on the VAR discussion from yesterday.
At this point, I knew that this VAR wasn't going to help with the long-term solution, but I still needed their help.
Just to reiterate, the network was a hub and spoke with a spanned
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Part 2 of this conversation tomorrow.
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One of the most important things that you can do as a Network Architect is to cultivate a relationships with worthwhile VARs.
A VAR is a "Value-Added Reseller." They act as the glue between your organization and a set of manufacturers.
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This post is 10% of the way, and I have a lot of other topics to write about. I will probably change the cadence to 2 to 3 posts a week following the event.
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I had someone ask me the other day, "why are you writing about all this stuff?"
This whole process has been helpful to get my thoughts together for the keynote at the inaugural KC NUG event next Thursday, 4/10.
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a friend asked me about these posts.
Looking forward to the feedback on Lab 2!
github.com/chronot1995/...
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In lab 2, you'll configure dynamic routing, using OSPF, on top of the same lab 1 topology.
The goals of this lab are the following:
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basically pulled a fast one to get the students to connect to the 802.1X network.
I'll post the second lab tomorrow which will focus on changing the spanned L2 network into an L3, OSPF-based, design.
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Let's talk about what steps we took to fix the wireless issues with the three competing systems.
First, we took an inventory of where the three wireless systems were geographically installed. The third system, with the lowest density,
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But, we did not have to wait for the underlying wired network and fiber to get sorted to start improving this.
I'm going to push the lab until Thursday, as I want to talk more about the wireless strategy tomorrow.
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7/100
I next pivoted to the wireless network.
What I'm about to describe is something I have not seen in a long, long time. Often, you may have one primary wireless network and maybe a second as part of a transition or a Proof of Concept.
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- that same type of breaker is what they had to do when the network looped.
Ha, I swear this will turn into a happy story. Tomorrow I'll talk about the wireless network and on Wednesday I'll post the second lab.
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