Hardened / Immutable Backups are the equivalent of “air gapped,” tape, or WORM backups, rendering your data nearly untouchable by Threat Actors! Hardened / Immutable Backups are accomplished through the use of a Linux repository server, the XFS filesystem (to support Fast Clone), one-time-use credentials, and the immutability flag which is a property of just
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Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS User: administrator Password: P@ssw0rd (please note that’s a zero in P@ssw0rd) Open-vm-tools installed root is NOT configured, to configure root, open terminal and run sudo passwd root
I have created several new Virtual Appliances from common Linux flavors and packaged them in OVA format for you use and enjoyment: Linux Mint Fedora Workstation Kali Linux During the build, I like to practice KISS with a view on real world use. For example, I have installed and configured the basic packages and utilities
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Ubuntu is one of the most well-known and useful server Operating Systems available. Today I am going to show you how to build Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS as a Virtual Machine running on VMware vSphere ESXi using the VIrtual Machine Remote Console (VMRC) and ISO Image on local disk. Let’s get started….