3.2 Applying the ESXi License
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>> Welcome back to the Cybrary course
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in building your InfoSec Lab.
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I'm your host and instructor, Kevin Hernandez.
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On our last lesson, we downloaded and installed
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ESXi into a lab utilizing a tool called Rufus.
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Rufus basically allowed us
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configuring or manipulating this ISO into
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a bootable drive in which our system was
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able to read S equals a CD or DVD.
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In today's lesson, we'll
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have a brief introduction to ESXi.
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Also, we'll apply our ESXi License into our system.
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Let's get started. Now the first thing to do,
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just log in ESXi.
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Just come here, route and the password.
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Your prompt will do this [inaudible]
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only the first time you're putting in.
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Basically, it's joining the
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community experience improvement program.
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I'll decline. Now, once you get to here,
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you will see basically a dashboard
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with most of the information regarding your server.
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Here you have the version of your ESXi.
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Here you can see my ISP provider.
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How many days it's been up.
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I guess it's been around six days since I installed it.
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You can also see
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the CPU memory and storage usage for your machine.
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Down here on hardware, you can see
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a little bit more details regarding
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your CPU configuration, your model, etc.
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If you scroll along here,
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you can see give or take the amount of
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CPU and memory usage by the system.
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Now, since we have no installs,
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this looks very stable.
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However, as we add
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more appliances and these become more dynamic,
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you might see this varied according to time.
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Right here in the bottom, you'll see
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the recent task, the server I've taken.
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In this case, you can see it
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>> basically perform a update.
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>> Now that you have familiarized
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yourself with the dashboard,
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let's register this device.
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In other words, let's install or apply
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the license key that we got when we
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downloaded the system into our product.
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In order to achieve that, let's
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go right here into the manage tab.
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Now let's go to licensing.
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Right here, you'll see your current situation,
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and right here, you'll see
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that Assign a License to your software.
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Let's click it and let's copy-paste our license key.
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Now I have put a little sticky note
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>> in order to cover my license.
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>> But basically, once you paste your license,
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you will click the Check License [inaudible] .
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The system will validate that
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the license is indeed valid.
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Let's assign. Once assigned, you can see
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your actual key right here,
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where these little icons are
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appearing and you can see the expiration date is
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never compared to the big block
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of data that we saw earlier.
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You can also notice that down here in task,
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you will also see that license
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being updated and applied to our system.
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Now that our license is applied,
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we can start building our lab.
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First, we will start installing
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our NextGen Firewall, pfSense.
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Afterwards, we will start installing
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several applications based on the requirement and
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total allocation of resources
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>> available on our system.
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>> What have we learned today?
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>> We familiarized ourself with ESXi's dashboard.
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We also applied our license into our system.
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In our next lesson, we will be
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installing our NextGen Firewall.
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As mentioned earlier, this will be pfSense.
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Hope to see you soon. Have a great day.
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