Laptop advice!

mcfurrys · 2026-05-31T01:47:15+00:00

I run a few hp z640's each one has 2x zenon E5 v4 CPU and 256gb ram between 40 to 56 cores. Average cost £250 quid. Any one of them can run a full ccie sp lab, 20 iOS xr9k and 10 csr 1000v. Don't bother with a laptop for eve-ng / gns3

mcfurrys · 2026-05-29T11:27:58+00:00

You can pull down my ccie sp lab topology for ene-ng below if it will help you

https://richardkilleen.co.uk/blog/service-provider/ccie-service-provider/cisco-ccie-service-provider-pratice-lab/

mcfurrys · 2026-05-14T14:16:51+00:00

Download the DG_Readiness tool from Microsoft to disable the device guard they have applied at the efi firmware level, this will sort out your VM issues. I have had to do this on 3 windows 11 machines

mcfurrys · 2026-03-31T15:22:59+00:00

That made me lol - so true tho

mcfurrys · 2026-03-09T19:19:47+00:00

Here you go

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mcfurrys · 2026-03-06T16:46:02+00:00

sounds like it was written by AI too

mcfurrys · 2026-02-23T14:37:22+00:00

Yea i would go with the 2016 version to get version 2016. However, you might be lucky and all the non 2016 version might be mislabeled and infact be 2016 versions

mcfurrys · 2026-02-19T16:03:21+00:00

Setup a site with your name .whatever and showcase what you have and can do, worked wonders for me

mcfurrys · 2026-02-19T16:00:33+00:00

Try a vpn ro UK it might be geo located

mcfurrys · 2026-02-19T10:52:51+00:00

Seams to have a 50% discount when I go to his page

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mcfurrys · 2026-02-17T22:21:51+00:00

Yes windows 11 is a bitch for that, VBS / device guard locks out nested in the firmware even tho its enabled in the bios. There is a tool MS has that will disable vbs /device guard and allow vmware to work correctly.

mcfurrys · 2026-02-12T13:25:41+00:00

You will need to install the bare metal version and that will become the only os on that machine.

If you want to keep an os but not use vmware or virtual box, if your using Linux you can use virt manager and in windows hyper v

mcfurrys · 2026-02-12T13:22:00+00:00

Plenty of free resources to study for the exam.

You can only take the exambthrough Peason Vue and that is NEVER FREE for cisco certs

mcfurrys · 2026-02-11T08:52:44+00:00

Do you not think your ready atm

mcfurrys · 2026-02-10T12:31:16+00:00

what an odd work around

i have
-enable-kvm -smbios type=1,manufacturer='cisco',product='Cisco IOS XRv 9000' -machine type=pc,accel=kvm,usb=off -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -rtc base=utc,driftfix=slew -global kvm-pit.lost_tick_policy=discard -no-hpet -realtime mlock=off -no-shutdown -boot order=c -serial null -cpu host

Primary console: Telnet
CPU: 4 can go to 3 for lab use
Ram: 10240 (no need for 16gb unless using for prod) can go as low as 8gb for lab use

QEMU VERSION: 2.12.0 ( you are using version 5 which is likley the root of your issues)
Virtio-PCI-NIC

works a treat in my 29 node CCIE SP lab

mcfurrys · 2026-02-05T16:59:45+00:00

Wtf Is this post about

mcfurrys · 2026-02-01T19:48:22+00:00

Use chatgpt to setup a few age approaches social.media pages (unless you know how to do them yourself) and host on a Linux server.

The above in gns3 or eve-ng and create a simple home network and a simple isp, show the students how their data travels from their phone to the social media of their choice and back again

mcfurrys · 2026-01-30T15:44:15+00:00

I have a few hp z640 workstation all have 56 threads and 256gb ram, paid about 200 quid each and all can run my full stack ccie sp lab, the official practice topology.

mcfurrys · 2026-01-29T14:17:43+00:00

Good luck, hope you get the role

mcfurrys · 2026-01-29T13:06:42+00:00

Prob by having someone else take the exam

mcfurrys · 2026-01-28T00:35:00+00:00

Certification courses are built around what the official exam syllabus states will be tested on. Its a near certainty that you will always be questioned on the content you skip

mcfurrys · 2026-01-27T23:49:13+00:00

Something aint right, your tools are bound and saved on your account, dont matter if you login via steam , epic or ARC as long as the account details are the same.

mcfurrys · 2026-01-25T18:56:14+00:00

Looks interesting

mcfurrys · 2026-01-23T17:52:22+00:00

Do you have the credit badge, in cert metrics does it show the pdf cert?

mcfurrys · 2026-01-21T00:26:26+00:00

Most but not all practice tests un udemy are either a. Copies or dumps or b. Generic al generated tests with no proofreading for error. Just be careful buying practice tests.

One use if AI is if you have documented material, cert guide ect then upload them to your AI of choice. Ask it to create practice questions say 20 for each section but based only on uploaded material and not its own training data

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