I have pulled down the latest ISO for ESXi 6.5 – I want to have 2 x ESXi Servers, so I will document the process once and then repeat.
Select File, New Virtual Machine and select Custom
Hit Next and then Next again at the Choose the Virtual Machine Hardware Compatibility screen
Browse to your VMvisor ISO and select Next
The next step is to spin up a Windows Server 2016 Domain Controller – this will provide DNS and Active Directory.
I provisioned the VM with 2GB RAM, 1 Processor and a 50GB HDD (this may need tweaking but should be enough to get started) and I have mapped the ISO. When you deploy the Server make sure you set a complex password for the Administrator account before starting the AD configuration as it will “promote” your local administrator account to a Domain Admin.
Windows Update
The first thing Im going to do is run an Update (as this Server will not be connected to the Internet after this point). At the moment it is connected as Host-Only, so I need to change that to Bridged (more…)
Im now in the process of building up my Virtual Lab (I’m pretty excited about this as I have been out of the Virtualisation arena for a few years, so this will be an opportunity to learn whats new in 6.5 and also have a good play with Hyper-V) – My Home Lab Hardware is now in place and I have upgraded my VMWare Workstation to 12.5 (Current latest version)
The overall plan for my Lab is to run a small vSphere 6.5 and Hyper-V Environment for various reasons (mainly my new role – which i will post about soon) all contained within VMware Workstation.
I have a few SMB Shares running in my Home which i wanted to access from one of my Ubuntu Desktops. The Share in question was a Software repository on my NAS and so in my instructions you will see software or sw referenced, these you will have to change with your equivalent.
First thing to do is grab the cifs-utils
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
I recently only had SSH Access into an Environment which had a Web Based GUI I needed to access. I used SOCKS as a Proxy (Built into OpenSSH) to access the UI by performing the following on my Mac:
As I had SSH Access i used the following command
Pre-reqs:
Instructions:
Run the following
Check to see if the following file exists: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
For this example i will create a user account called newuser – this will need to be replaced by whatever you want your account to be called.
Create new user account: sudo adduser newuser
Enter and confirm a password and complete the Information if necessary:
To check the Kernel release
uname -r
To check the Kernel Version
uname -v
To check your Ubuntu release
lsb_release -a
Create a directory to mount the cdrom
sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
Now need to see where the cdrom is mapped to, so run:
lsblk
I use USB Drives quite a bit to move data between Windows, Mac and Linux Devices. Sometimes when i go to re-format them they only show as 200MB capacity
As I’m on a Windows machine, open the Command Prompt (CMD) and type: diskpart
Type: list disk to see your drive, in my case here, its Disk 2
I recently ordered a Raspberry Pi 3 (currently £30.80) with an SanDisk Ultra 8 GB microSDHC Card (Currently £4.35) with the intention of installing Kali 2.0. For this setup i used my Windows 10 PC.
This post will cover setting up the SD Card and installing Kali
I downloaded the ARM Image from the Offensive Security Site, which comes down compressed. I also downloaded Win32 Disk Imager and installed it.
I already had 2 external Monitors running from my MacBook by using 2 x miniDP to HDMI adapters. I was using the fairly standard ones that come with the Mac but I have another Monitor which i used for my Lab PC (Windows) and Figured I could connect this to my Mac and run Microsoft Remote Desktop to connect to it, removing the extra Keyboard and mouse off my desk.
For this install I chose to use MySecureShell as a small and quick way to stand up an SFTP Server. As usual all commands are in Bold.
Log into your Ubuntu Server with Admin credentials:
Sudo apt-get install mysecureshell
cd /etc/apt (more…)
run ifconfig to find the name of your Interface. Normally these would be eth0, eth1 etc but in my Virtual Environment they are different
My Infrastructure Blog focused around Virtualisation, Storage, Server and other Tech
My Infrastructure Blog focused around Virtualisation, Storage, Server and other Tech
My Infrastructure Blog focused around Virtualisation, Storage, Server and other Tech
My Infrastructure Blog focused around Virtualisation, Storage, Server and other Tech
