Welcome to the Flackbox blog, where my aim is to help you build your cloud and data center career. If you’re looking to widen your knowledge across server, networking and storage technologies then you’ve come to the right place. I regularly upload training video tutorials featuring vendors such as Cisco, NetApp and VMware.
NetApp Fabric Pool Tutorial
Posted on October 22, 2020 By Flackbox
In this NetApp tutorial, you’ll learn about Fabric Pool, which is an ONTAP storage tiering technology. It keeps your hot recently accessed data on high performance storage, on your primary storage, and it tiers off your cold data to lower performance, but lower cost object storage. Scroll down...
RIP Routing Information Protocol Tutorial
Posted on October 20, 2020 By Flackbox
In this Cisco CCNA tutorial, you’ll learn about RIP, the Routing Information Protocol. RIP is a distance vector routing protocol, so it’s going to be using routing by rumor. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorials. RIP Routing Information Protocol Video Tutorial [youtube...
NetApp SnapVault Tutorial
Posted on October 16, 2020 By Flackbox
In this NetApp training tutorial, we will cover NetApp SnapVault. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp SnapVault Video Tutorial [youtube v = 46U234kS9e0 maxwidth = 100%] [testimonial_view id=”2″] NetApp SnapVault NetApp SnapVault is ONTAP’s long term dis...
NetApp Bootup Process Tutorial
Posted on October 15, 2020 By Flackbox
In this NetApp tutorial, you’ll learn about the ONTAP boot-up process and we’ll have a quick lab demo where I’ll show you the system booting up. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp The Bootup Process Video Tutorial [youtube v = bJfkwbZMMJQ maxwidth = 100...
NetApp SnapMirror Data Protection DP Mirrors Tutorial
Posted on October 14, 2020 By Flackbox
In this NetApp training tutorial, I will cover NetApp SnapMirror Data Protection Mirrors, which I gave a shorter overview of in this post. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp SnapMirror Data Protection DP Mirrors Video Tutorial [youtube v = FiJZn3FTJeM maxwidth = 100%] [...
Advantages of Cloud Computing and Calculating TCO
Posted on October 13, 2020 By Flackbox
In this cloud tutorial, I am going to cover the advantages of Cloud Computing. I’ll also give a quick and basic example of how to do a TCO calculation for you to decide if you’re going to move to a Cloud solution or not. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. This [&hel...
NetApp Admin Components
Posted on October 8, 2020 By Flackbox
In this NetApp tutorial, you’ll learn about the different administrative components on the cluster. I’ll tell you about Volume Zero, and Aggregate Zero. Also, about the replicated database and our admin SVMs. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. NetApp Admin Components Video...
Cisco Basic Layer 1 and 2 Troubleshooting
Posted on October 6, 2020 By Flackbox
In this Cisco CCNA tutorial, we’re going to cover troubleshooting at Layer 1 and Layer 2 of the OSI stack. Scroll down for the video and also text tutorial. Cisco Basic Layer 1 and 2 Troubleshooting Video Tutorial [youtube v = 9WluVSqKNCE maxwidth = 100%] [testimonial_view id=”1″...