CCIE COLLAB LAB preparation

[virendra pathak]

Hello Everyone,

Very good Morning..

Wishing you very Happy New year to Everyone!!!!

I am very new in this domain, This year i decoded to do a CCIE in COLLAB, Before this i was in R&S. I need a great help and suggestion to setup a CCIE LAB at home. I appreciate for this great help.

Before to raise the query to CISCO, i did google and found so many vendors are available in market. I am from Singapore and here cost is also very high of CISCO classes, so planning to set up "COLLAB LAB" at home.

Need someone help who did this setup at home and how did he maintain the same, all such kind of experience is needed before invest the money to the LAB.

Very Important " Power" utilization and is there any way to save the POWER during the LAB.

So, please guys need your "GREAT HELP AND SUPPORT" to be a expertise in COLLAB.

Regards

Viru.

[Chris Deren]

Virus,

Have you reviewed the CCIE Collab Lab pages, where you can see study materials, topics, software versions and hardware required:

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccie_collaboration/lab_exam/study-material

[pkinane · Accepted solution]

Power consumption will be noticed. One way you can save on power is to only type the commands in notepad ++ then turn the IOS devices on when ready instead of keeping them running all the time. Some friends would type the commands out in notepad ++ every day; however, they would only turn the routers on a few times a week when they would do a complete run through of their configurations.

This is going to help you know what to get:

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-20807

Kevin Wallace and Vik Mahli both do a great job discussing lab setups:

KW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FGJab29LOM
       Kevin includes his topology and base line configurations in the description

VM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfXqy3HJu5M

A blog entry from VM (I recommend reading anything you see from Vik):

https://www.collabcert.com/blog/ccie-collaboration-overview/ccie-collaboration-lab-feedback/

So far I've used Kevin Wallace material, old IP Expert material, old INE material, Some of the Collaboration 360 stuff, any blog I can find online, and CollabCert. I am very happy with all of it; however, as a personal opinion comment I found CollabCert to be extremely helpful/valuable.