In my opinion road to CCIE Security starts at the end - on mocklab (of course if you have written exam knowledge level)
I hope this blog will help me and people who wants to discover CCIE Security v5 track.
Below diagram show our mocklab
For virtual environment i use two computers: desktop PC HP8200 with 16gb ram and four core i5 processor, server HP DL360 with 42gb ram and two Xenon four core processors. On PC i got win7 and on server w2k8 R2. On both machines is located Vmware Workstation.
Of course we can virtualized almost everything but if you got "real" appliances is faster.
Hardware and software info:
ASA-1 5520 9.1(7)16
ASA-2 5520 9.1(7)16
ASA-3 5520 9.1(7)16
ASA-4 5505 9.1(6)16
ASA-5 5520 9.1(7)16
ASA-6 ASAv5 9.7(1)4 (virtual machine)
R1 2901 15.5(2)T4
R2 2901 15.5(2)T4
R3 CSR1000v 3.16.05.S (virtual machine)
R4 2901 15.5(2)T4
R5 2901 15.5(2)T4
sw3 3560 15.0(2)SE
sw4 2960 15.0(2)SE
Palo Alto: PM-VM-100-7.0.1 (virtual machine)
Firepower Management Center 6.1 (virtual machine)
Firepower Threat Defense 6.0.1 (virtual machine)
Firepower NGIPSv 6.1.0 (virtual machine)
ACS 5.8.0.32 (virtual machine)
ISE 2.1.0.474-mini (virtual machine)
Wireless Controller (WLC 2500): 8.0.133.0
Web Security Appliance (WSA S170): 9.1.2
Web Security Appliance (WSA): 9.2.0 (virtual machine)
Email Security Appliance (ESA): 9.7.1 (virtual machine)
IP Phone 8961
Access Point (AP 2600): 15.3.3-JC
PC1 with win7 (virtual machine)
PC2 with win7 (virtual machine)
NEW:
UCS C220: 64gb ram, 2x E5-2640 cpu
with eve-ng bare metal on this (i have virl license for vIOS, vIOS L2 and rest with demo/eval)