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If you are planning on making a network lab specfically for networking, then creating an NMS server is a good first step, in the enterprise as well as the lab. FTP/TFTP Server Logging Server NTP Server DHCP/DNS/etc. Management Portal Server/Console Server All of these can and should be the same device and basically think of it as the entry point to your network. You will consolidate all logs, backup all images, and use it as your one stop shop for management and learning. Also just learning how to correctly setup and deploy all of those features/services is a great way to start to get into the more interesting parts of IT.
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I'm talking specifically about a lab setup. If you are doing your CCNA and you are planning on going further, then learning what all those services are and how to deploy them is a good idea. Obviously in the enterprise many of those services will be separate especially as the environment scales. For a home lab, all of that stuff can be deployed on a single router.
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evol262 posted:I don't see a reason why these services wouldn't be separate in an environment predicated on virtualization. Totally a possibility. Though then you run into the issue of access to your lab being dependent upon the function of the lab. I'd prefer the ability to completely isolate the lab devices, but still being able to access each one. So for example even though I'm running vsphere I wouldn't want to manage vsphere through a VM hosted on vsphere. So for my lab since it's networking focused. I have all my network services plus console server on a single device I can access on my home network. by telneting to 10.1.10.254 and from there gong everywhere I need.
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Just  it doesn't matter.
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IOS, JunOS, FoS, NX-OS, it doesn't really matter after about a week. Also for a fun JunOS excercise assign 24 ports to a vlan, then assign 12 of those ports to a different vlan. How many strokes did that take?
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