How to handle increasing AMP demands.

[adanrules66]

Hello community i am Adan Ramirez, an aspiring Cisco Tech, and I'm trying to power my cisco devices.

i own 6 cisco devices that use around 2-3 amp's, and i already broke the circuit trying to power them, so i got an extension cord and powered these devices in other outlets in my house, but this is frustrating because if i invest in a CCIE lab, how the *hell am i going to power them all?

problem: my cheap apartment is having issues powering all my devices.

[michael o'nan · Accepted solution]

You should consider using VIRL or GNS3 to emulate the routers and only worry about power for switches. You can build GNS3 topologies on pretty much anything but I typically prefer Ubuntu OS. Go to gns3vault.com for free labs and topologies as well. For VIRL you will need a hypervisor like VMWare (ESXi, Workstation, or Fusion should work.)