Hi everybody,
so I passed my CCNA at the beginning of September and went for a short holiday in Krakow (very nice city, recommending a visit if you have time).
After the above the new uni year has started so busy with installing PCs in a brand new building, deploying images and testing builds so not a lot of time, a lot of overtime but it was well worth it seeing the new students impressed by the facilities. After that I was seconded to the Networking team where I started to learn about Cisco Unified Communications Manager and now my plan is to get CCNA Voice certified. So far I managed to set up a Virtual Machine with the CUCM and I managed to install a Cisco IP Communicator with 2 lines and configure an Android phone with 3rd party SIP client. My next plans are to re-build my AD servers and connect them with CUCM.
I have also tried to configure my mobile phone and the CUCM server to run Cisco Jabber but the supported devices and Android OS versions are very limited and unfortunately no support for my Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod.
As I like to do multiple things at the same time I had a quick look for a low power consumption server that could run my virtual machines (at the moment I am using them from my laptop but it is not ideal since I do not want to keep the laptop running all the time).
I did a bit of research and it looks like I will buy an Apple MAC mini. I wanted long time ago to start to study about ESX and get more into virtualisation so here we go.
I found a very interesting article about the subject:
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/12/running-esxi-50-51-on-2012-mac-mini-62.html
The posts in the future will be about: CUCM and getting the MAC mini setup.
If everything goes well I will order the MAC on Monday so probably next week I will be busy :)
