My name is Fred Ferrell (http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredferrell) and I work for NetApp supporting a diverse set of lab equipment in multiple data centers. This equipment is used for our most advanced classes that we offer for internal staff, our Advanced Consulting Services team, and resale partners around the world. I also provide data center management expertise to VBL Technologies of Raleigh, a top tier IT service provider in North Carolina.
I have experience with many different components in the data center, including NetApp storage, Cisco Nexus and Catalyst Ethernet switches, Cisco MDS and Brocade FC switches, Cisco ASA firewalls, VMware ESX versions 3.5 to 5.5, and many different OSes (Linux, Unix, and Microsoft).