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Milestone One Lab Reflection

In this lab (week two of the class), I accessed the Supermicro assigned to me via the virtual console (using HTML rather than the Java Web Start console). This is something very familiar to me as I used to do this very often when setting up the Commonality Lab during my junior year. I have since purchased a physical rackmount console to use with my servers.

Prior to installing VMWare ESXi onto the host, I attempted to load the ISO as virtual media, but this was unsuccessful. No problem as USBs work just fine. I installed ESXi onto the smaller drive in order to use the largest drive for storing our VMs and VM installation media.

I assigned a static IP matching my host IP address in the table (.3.208) and a hostname of super8.

I then created a datastore using the larger of the two drives, added a folder for ISOs, and uploaded ISOs.

Then, I created a vSwitch and new port group for our internal VMs.

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I installed PfSense and set the IP addressing information based on the assigned information in the table. I also performed a minimal installation of Xubuntu on the MGMT-01 VM, then took a snapshot after powering off the VM and removing the ISO file. Afterwards, I finished up the setup for pfsense via the web interface.

Milestone #1 Deliverable #1 (Logged into ESXi host)

Milestone #1 Deliverable #2 (Created a second datastore with ISOs folder, uploaded specified ISO files)

Milestone #1 Deliverable #3 (Created a new vSwitch and port group)

Milestone #1 Deliverable #4 (Proof of connectivity)