Requirements: A valid Ravello Account ESXi ISO , Uploaded to Ravello Steps Open the application that you want to Create ESXi in. If you don’t know how to create an application in Ravello please follow these instructions Go to VMs and Click the add icon Go to the General tab and Rename your ESXi Machine
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This week I am testing VMWare’s VSAN storage feature. I am fascinated by this. VMware VSAN (VMware Virtual SAN) is a storage feature integrated in the vSphere 5.5 and above kernels that pools disk space from multiple ESXi hosts. Its what they call Software-defined storage (SDS), where storage services control storage distribution other than hardware. Storage is managed
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So, I installed VCenter in a Virtual machine (SRV2012R2) in my home lab. VCenter 6.5 does not come with a windows client, so when the web service is down, you cannot access your VCenter and VMs. At first I was able to log into VCenter and do all my configurations, then I restarted the VM,
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This is part of my skill building series where I do specific skill walkthroughs to sharpen my skills while at the same time contributing to the online community. I will start by using SET Harvesting tools in Kali, and in future posts I hope to not use any tools but just use php scripts and
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I recently installed VCenter 6.5 in my environment and I needed to update my esxi hosts from 6 to 6.5. Here are the steps I took to accomplish this. Prerequesites: Create a backup of your Esxi hosts using Veeam or any backup method that you like Make sure that your VCenter is upgraded to 6.5
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We begin by running netdiscover and my machine is in vmware and mac address ends with c7:fe so our address is 192.168.5.193 Next, we run nmap to see if we can find anything interesting. nmap -A -T4 -sV -p- 192.168.5.193 So we see that we have a web server running on 80/tcp and 22/tcp ssh
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