Another badge from Awarded from TryHackMe, this is a recently new badge, as TryhackMe recently updated the SOC Level 1 Training Path Certification, which I completed in June 2024, so I’m currently 50% of the way through SOC Level 2, so I went back to complete the additional rooms, and gain a group of new badges!
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These are my memory dump notes from working with a Failed upgrade, and Snapshot revert failed!
I’ve been meaning to upgrade my VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.14.1.0-22806512 appliance in the #homelab for a while, so I was surprised at first when trying to simply upgrade the PAK file it failed with not enough storage in /tmp, so I tried both these updates
but failed, so after SSHing into the appliance and checking all the storage, and removing older log files, I noticed that /tmp is defined as a “ram drive”.
So I increased the memory in the Appliance by 2GB, shutdown, changed the memory, and powered on. SSHed back to the appliance
SSH log insight storage space
Using the command
mount -o remount,size=5G /tmp/
Increased the size to 5GB, so at least the upgrade could complete correctly, I also used
tail -f /storage/var/loginsight/upgrade.log to check the upgrade status, but trying to apply the Scheme upgrade to Cassandra it failed, this is a stock VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.14.1.0-22806512, so not sure why it failed, and there is not much info on the Broadcom site about VMware vRealize Log Insight.
The GUI stated the Upgrade had failed, and although it stated reverting to 8.14.1.0-22806512 it failed.
So I reverted to the snapshot, I had taken before applying the upgrade, but to my surprise, reverting to a snapshot ended up with a completely non-working appliance, the GUI stopped responding. So reaching out for the backups to restore the appliance, quickly found this VM was missing from the jobs!
Duh! Oh shite, got to fix the appliance now, and this is how I fixed it.
1.SSH to appliance
2. service loginsight stop (be prepared to wait a long time!)
3. /usr/lib/loginsight/application/sbin/li-cassandra.sh –startnow –force
it will respond with
Running Operations for Logs stop……..done
Starting Cassandra…..done
WARNING: Be sure to stop Cassandra before attempting to start Operations for Logs!
In worst case, restart the virtual appliance.
4. nodetool-no-pass flush
5. nodetool-no-pass repair –full
6. /usr/lib/loginsight/application/sbin/li-cassandra.sh –stopnow –force
7. service loginsight start
At this point I still did not have a working VMware vRealize Log Insight 8.14.1.0-22806512.
So I then applied the PAK manually.
8. /usr/lib/loginsight/application/sbin/loginsight-pak-upgrade.py /tmp/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-8.16.0-23364779.pak (this was already uploaded via WinSCP to /tmp)
and wait…
There’s alot of changes in the appliance from 8.14 to 8.16 as you can see above!
and now
Log Insight 8.16
Log Insight 8.16
So I hope my notes helps you upgrade your Appliance if you get stuck!
Oh, and I’ve added the VM to a backup job just in case for future, so snapshots don’t always save you!
So in the last four months since, my last posts, I’ve earned another 28 badges and there they are! When I started this THM journey in December 2023, I was Ranked 55,648 out of approximately 3 million THM Hackers!
Latest badge shows I’m now Ranked 1750 and in the Top 1% ! It would be nice to get into the Top 500 !
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So I’m trying to build up a 180 day hacking streak at TryHackMe, so in the last 3 months, I’ve earned a total of 17 New Badges! and here they all are!
So I thought it was time to apply for the VMware vExpert Sub Programs, of which there are several. I’ve been a vExpert PRO for several years, which is one of the sub programs, so this year I also applied for the VMware vSphere vSAN and vSphere sub programs.
and I’m happy to report that I’ve been excepted into the VMware vSphere vSAN and vSphere sub programs for 2024, as well as a vExpert PRO 2024.
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Sadly ESXi FREE is now longer available! You will need to join VMUG Advantage+ or become a vExpert
Here are the hashes for the ESXi 8.0.2.22380479 8.0U2 ISO before it is removed:
| Name: | VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0U2-22380479.x86_64.iso |
|---|---|
| Release Date: | 2023-09-21 |
| Build Number: | 22380479 |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image | |
| Boot your server with this image in order to install or upgrade to ESXi (ESXi requires 64-bit capable servers). This ESXi image includes VMware Tools. | |
| MD5SUM: | 2403e11fb6d46dd57ba0a6ee0fa1c833 |
|---|---|
| SHA1SUM: | a2773c2519715e28d23f39753f4d6064f29fef48 |
| SHA256SUM: | ff062f843be45760b591096fbf7be0b1003f6469db24f2d2e40a4c8ed3d86c21 |
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image
Here are the hashes for the ESXi 7.0U3n-21930508 ISO before it is removed:
| Name: | VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U3n-21930508.x86_64.iso |
|---|---|
| Release Date: | 2023-07-06 |
| Build Number: | 21930508 |
| VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image | |
| Boot your server with this image in order to install or upgrade to ESXi (ESXi requires 64-bit capable servers). This ESXi image includes VMware Tools. | |
| MD5SUM: | 0cacd44568b7f6112c6d003ef210dcfe |
|---|---|
| SHA1SUM: | 07b2f7677b274fca656bac564445c0882b540835 |
| SHA256SUM: | b5e65fc738900296dd70d1938d76ebb72dab19b9b722dedad445669fc77f1272 |
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image
For the past 5 years, I’ve been completing the AoC (Advent of Cyber), which is 24/25 days of cyber “hacking” tasks, every day leading up to Christmas Day. These are the new badges I’ve earned for 2023.
This year was a special year, because not only did THM have the usual AoC, they also had some very insanely difficult Side Challenges, to complete a single challenge earned this badge from TryHackMe
To complete ALL the four challenges earned this badge
A list of all my Experts Exchange articles and videos can be found here – at the – CodHeadClub – To copy and paste!
http://tinyurl.com/AwesomeResourcesURL
This is an Awesome List of Computer Science, Technology, Programming and Educational resources for the benefit of all who care to use it.
The list was originally created by Closebracket.
I’ve now written over 140 articles and created 40 hours of tutorial VMware vSphere videos on vSphere 7.0 and 8.0. and today published Part 50 – VMware vSphere videos on vSphere 7.0.
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