For replacing a physical remote access VPN implementation with a VPN server in a virtual machine, one of the options is SoftEther. There is a lot of documentation in the site but somehow I felt the material was hard to absorb. In this post I describe the reference implementation I managed to complete with SoftEther. […]
Tag: vmware
Setting Up a Syslog Server
In the field of networking it is very useful to have a centralized location for your logs as the system itself (the network) is distributed. Syslog is the usual method of collecting the logs. There are lots of different solutions to collect syslogs, ranging from general-purpose servers or virtual machines running some syslog daemon software […]
Installing VMware Tools on Debian Linux
[Updated on 1-Apr-2017: For a long time now I haven’t bothered with installing VMware Tools manually anymore. Instead I’ve just used the open-vm-tools package included in Debian, so a plain “apt-get install open-vm-tools” does the job. I’ve understood that some features are missing when compared to the original VMware Tools, so be sure to check […]
Building My Own VMware vSphere Hypervisor Host
As I wrote in my previous post, I’m building my own VMware vSphere Hypervisor (a.k.a. ESXi) host. Today I was able to get the first Debian server running on it! Let me go through the platform install for us. Planning the Hardware I was totally not planning to get a rackmount server or even a […]
Installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.x on a USB Stick
I’m planning to get my own virtual server platform installed at home for testing purposes. The easy way would be to just run the free VMware Player on the laptop but I want to play with the free VMware vSphere Hypervisor as well. Apparently vSphere Hypervisor is the engine that has been known as ESXi. […]