Building a "Virtual" DNAC for my Budget Centric CCIE EI Home Lab (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- In this video I show how I build a reduced footprint DNA-Center (using vmware) to use for CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Exam prep. I am building this device using a vSphere Host to create a Virtual DNA-Center that has a footprint of 62CPU, 256 GB RAM and a 600GB SSD HDD. This VM is the smallest most stable foot print I have been able to build that can run all services needed for NCP and NPD. I am experimenting with reducing the footprint further by deactivating some features and will add more information as I find stable options.
This "mini" DNAC is the best of both works (functionality and cost) in my opinion. It may require some administrative interaction to make work, but after this is done I will show you how to take a snapshot and introduce you to how I would build an affordable home lab using as much virtualization as humanly possible.
Part 3 in this series is coming as soon.
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Nice informative video, what about license part for DNAC for home lab ?
Not necessary for a home lab.
Hi Terry, we need License to run Esxi to run right
Hey Terry! Glad to see things are going well for you! Which would be harder to create a home lab for, Enterprise or DataCenter. Im not worried about ACI as I have great experience with that. Thanks!
The two big issues building a home lab for DC is ACI (you got that under control) and the UCS-B (not cheap). But to be honest getting your hands on a UCS -B (less than $3K) is pretty easy if you want build a home lab. There is much you can do in Nexus using a virtual 9K (its is not a 1:1 perfect solution, but the differences is minor compared to the cost). So to be honest its about the same if you take ACI out of the mix.
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Storage labs would require at least 1 nexus 5K.
@@TerryVinsonCCIEx2 Thanks Terry! I do have 5k. UCS is the one thing that I'm just not a fan of. I'm currently looking to pivot towards the enterprise side because a customer has sd-wan implementation coming up. Do you think that is more suitable for modest equipment? Say 24 vcpus and 64 gig of ram?
SDWAN in that foot print you will be golden.
Hi Terry, For ESXi We need the license to run right?
so you need a valid CCO account that has the rights to download stuff?
When Cisco releases the official virtual dnac then it is my understanding that any CCO account will be able to download an unsupported version. Till the you have to have an account or know someone who does.
@@TerryVinsonCCIEx2thanks for taking the time to answer my question you are great!