ESXi Host

ESXi was used for a short period of time and ultimately dismissed because VMFS5 is still essentially FAT and prone to corruption on power failure.

ESXi Installation

• Download ESXi

• Set up HW-RAID

• Install ESXi

• Setup

  • ConfigureNetwork Management

    • Network Adapters: vmnic2 (tertiary card)

    • IPv4: 10.41.7.4X/24

    • IPv6: Disabled

    • DNS: 10.41.7.1

    • Hostname: virt1

• Log in to Web UI

• Disks: ssd, hdd

• Network: vSwitch1-Guest:

  • Both links

  • 2_Standard

  • 3_Guest

  • 50_Production

  • 51_DMZ

  • 7_Infrastructure

• Upload Debian ISO

• Assign License

New Template

• New VM:

  Name: TEMPLATE.lustfield.net
  Guest Family: Linux
  OS Version: Latest Debian 64-bit
  CPU: 2
  Mem: 2G
  HD: 16G
  Net: 3_Guest
  CD: ISO/Debion
  

• Boot to Debian ISO

• Advanced > Expert install

  • Accept defaults, except:

    ^ Hostname: TEMPLATE ^ Domain: lustfield.net ^ Root Pass: $firstPassEver ^ User: Michael […] ^ NTP: 10.41.7.1 ^ TZ: Central ^ Manual Partition:

    /dev/sda  [msdos]
         sda1 [lvm]
    
    lvm [name:sys]:
        root  5G    ext4  /         3%
        home  100M  ext4  /home     0%
        boot  1G    ext2  /boot     2%
        var   1G    ext4  /var      5%
        log   1G    ext4  /var/log  5%
        opt   1G    ext4  /opt      1%
        srv   1G    ext4  /srv      1%
    

    ^ initrd: targeted ^ tasksel: de-select all ^ Execute shell:

    apt install vim wget openssh-server open-vm-tools screen rsync
    apt purge vim-tiny nano systemd
    apt install sysvinit-core
    apt purge dbun 'libdbus*'
    mkdir /root/.ssh
    wget https://p.lustfield.net/mteck.pub -O /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
    chmod 700 /root/.ssh
    chmod 600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
    echo 'PermitRootLogin without-password' >>/etc/ssh/ssh_config
    echo 'AllowGroups ssh-user' >>/etc/ssh/ssh_config
    groupadd -g 990 ssh-user
    usermod -a -G ssh-user michael
    vim /etc/gai.conf
    

  • Let proceed as usual

  • DO NOT reboot into new system

• Upgrade VM Compatibility

• Turn into Template

  • Export > OVF