I am very excited to announce something that we have been working on for a long time based on the feedback we have received from our community. After close to 6 months of testing and updating KCloud 2.0 is now finally live!
The update KCloud has better machines with 4x the processing power and almost 10x the harddisk. We have also updated the way KCloud subscriptions work by simplifying the process. Students now have two options:
Purchase 20 hours for $100 that expire in 2 months
Purchase 40 hours to $200 that expire in 4 months
In addition, we have now pre-coded all licenses required to practice the labs and have created break points for all complex labs so that students can practice them in chunks rather than having to do it all in one-session or start each session from the start.
Please see the attached video by KB to gain more insights on how this works:
Please post all your KCloud 2.0 related queries on this thread.
Please note that KCloud does not have the ability to practice SDA labs. These along with Megalab, and Security and EI Super Labs are setup to be practiced on our physical rack. The price for the physical rack is $150 for 20 hours and you need to reach out to us (support@kbits.live) in order to purchase the hours and reserve practice slots.
P.S. Existing KCloud subscribers can transfer over their hours at no additional cost to KCloud 2.0, please contact support@kbits.live if you wish to do so.
P.P.S. Since this question gets asked a lot so I am going to add the answer here itself. Legally nobody but Cisco can distribute any of the images [IOS/IOL/IOS-XE,IOS-XR, ESA, WSA, FTD, ISE, SD-WAN Controllers & WAN Edges] . It applies to the licenses as well [ESA, WSA, SD-WAN WAN Edgel License]. You’ll need to procure them yourself from Cisco or Cisco Partners.
P.P.P.S. Listed below are credentials that are used in various places
Its actually 30 GBs of RAM and 180 GBs of HD space per individual machine i.e. per user. We did a lot of testing and RAM is not the limitation for running topologies on these machines. Even 30 GBs of RAM is bit of an overkill.
Thanks for the response, I am more curious on how you guys get the license on each device. Would love to know that If I can replicate that at my place.
This is a sensitive topic with various NDAs in place so I can’t share too much info. What I can say is that we have use a combination of open source and org level licenses.
Thanks for all of the hard work here. Question… Do you have a lab guide built for the KCloud topology? Also, password for ISE in KCloud 2.0? the admin/Kbits@123 in the CCIESecurityv6.pdf does not work.
KB updated the routers for KCloud 2.0 and they require a special script to boot their licenses. Unfortunately, we did not catch this issue pre-release. We are aware of this issue and are working on it. Our developer was unwell last week but he is expected to fix this bug this weekend.
Hi, thanks for the update. One thing I’d like to ask is, will we able to upload our own topology just in case we want to do that on the EVE-NG instance?
We do offer SDA labs but they are separate from KCloud as the DNAC switch cannot be virtualised. SDA lab hours can be purchased at the rate of $250 for 20 hours.
I’m trying to access the latest labs and topologies for the new recent CCIE EI live course and I’m not seeing the correct items in my list. It appears to be an older list and doesn’t line up with the recent course/topologies.
Also, If I import any topology file and start the nodes, they immediately shut themselves down. I’m not able to run any of the topologies and must resort to building them from scratch.
I’ve made several attempts to contact Kbits Live support email but they are not responsive.
I would like to either get this working or get a refund on my lab hour purchase.
Who can I speak to or reach out to for help with this? Can someone please verify my account/KCloud account?
