{"id":270,"date":"2014-04-15T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2014-04-15T17:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:49:27","slug":"my-home-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"My home lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>My purpose<\/h1>\n<h3>Primarily Learning Cisco Technologies<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working with Cisco for a large number of years now. It was never my fulltime job until I migrated from a Nortel Baystack enivironment to Cisco Catalyst. I&#8217;ve found that there is always something more to learn with networking, and espically with Cisco. My $day job is supporting a hospital with Routing and switching, Wireless and Security. While I feel I&#8217;m very comfortable with the switching, my routing skills are not utilized very much. Layer 3 switches not withstanding.<\/p>\n<h3>Secondary Learning VmWare<\/h3>\n<h3>Tertiary learning Linux<\/h3>\n<h4>Applications<\/h4>\n<p>The applications I want to learn are open source applications such as FreeRadius.<\/p>\n<h2>The lab<\/h2>\n<h3>Mac Mini<\/h3>\n<p>The primary device in my lab is a Mac Mini running ESXi 5.1. It has a standard 500 GB hard drive. I replaced the 4 GB of memory with 16 GB RAM from\u00a0<a href=\"www.crucial.com\">Crucial<\/a>. In order to run Exsi I reformated the hard drive and with the instructions from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtuallyghetto.com\/2012\/12\/running-esxi-50-51-on-2012-mac-mini-62.html\">VirtuallyGhetto.com<\/a>\u00a0I was able to install Esxi 5.1.<\/p>\n<h4>Esxi 5.1<\/h4>\n<h3>Cisco Gear<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Catalyst 2950<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Cisco AP 1240<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other devices<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Raspberry Pi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Apple TV<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Nexus 7<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Want to add<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Oswald, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625em;\">Synology NAS<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My purpose Primarily Learning Cisco Technologies I&#8217;ve been working with Cisco for a large number of years now. It was never my fulltime job until I migrated from a Nortel Baystack enivironment to Cisco Catalyst. I&#8217;ve found that there is always something more to learn with networking, and espically with Cisco. My $day job is supporting a hospital with Routing&#8230;<span class=\"path-read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=270\" title=\"My home lab\">  Read more &rarr; <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thomashillconsulting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}