SYS-350

ESXi Installation

• First plug in your usb drive into your server (super8 for me)
• then go to your ipmi address in a browser (192.168.7.92 for me)

• From there login and navigate to Remote Control > iKMB/HTML and launch the console

from there power cycle and using the below virtual keyboard press f11 one the below shown screen

• on the boot menu select your USB drive to boot your ESXi installer

• When selecting your disk choose the smaller 476 GB drive

• Choose US Default & set your root password

• Confirm the install

• Once that is done reboot your server

• After you have successfully rebooted press f2 and log into root using the password you set earlier

• Navigate to Configure Management Network > IPv4 Config

• Set IPv4 to static add your ESXi ip address, subnet mask to /24 and the default gateway to the room ip of 192.168.7.250

• Next configure the DNS and DNS Suffix

Once this is complete save and attempt to launch ESXI using the hostname.DNS Suffix (super8.cyber.local)

Deliverable 1

• the ip is different and it's all PAULS FAULT!!!!!!!!!

Datastore Configuration

• To start off we will navigate to storage and rename the two datastores as shown below using our super number to specify that these are super8's datastores.

• Next we will add a directory in datastore2 called isos which will contain the pfsense & xubuntu isos we will upload to the isos directory

Deliverable 2

VSwitch Creation

• By navigating to Networking > Virtual Switches > Add standard virtual switch you can create your own virtual switch

• Next navigate to Networking > Port groups > add port group and add the following:

Deliverable 3

pFsense Firewall & LAN Management workstation Creation

pFsense VM Creation

• Next we will setup our pFsense Firewall by creating a new VM and configuring as shown:

• Once you have configured as shown select finish to create your vm

Xubuntu Vm Creation

• We will now create a new Xubuntu VM as shown below:

pfSense Configuration

• Power on your new VMs and open a console to begin configuration

• Begin installing pfSense as shown

• Before rebooting do the following

• Edit settings of the 350-fwx and remove the ISO

• Then take a snapshot named base by right clicking 350-fwx and choosing snapshots > take a snapshot

• a successful pfSense installation should look as follows

• begin configuring your network interface

• The end result should look as follows

Xubuntu Configuration

• Begin the installation of xubuntu

• Create a username and password of your choosing and begin installation

• Once complete power off, remove the ISO from the cd rom and take a snapshot called base

• Power mgmt1 on and begin the network configuration

• Configure mgmt1's network as follows

• Open a web browser and navigate to pfSense 10.0.17.2 where the final configurations will occur (login using the default pfsense password)

• Configure the setup wizard as shown

• set an admin password and finish the setup

Deliverable 4

Reflection

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• I ran into an issue where the created root user could not log into ESXi which was due to an IP mess up that occurred for several people including myself

• There were random disconnections of mgmt1 to the network and I am not exactly sure why but if it continues I will consult my professors on the issue.