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Update ESXi 7.x using esxcli

I run ESXi at home for my VMs. Since I only need and have 1 ESXi host I had no need to install vCenter to manage my ESXi host, however I do want to keep it updated and current. To follow all the updates for ESXi please view VMware KB 2143832 Below are the steps to take to keep your ESXi updated Turn off VMs and put ESXi into maintenance mode Reboot – OPTIONAL – this is an optional step but it never hurts to reboot before upgrading to clear things up. Enable ssh service – you will need to… Continue Reading

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use fail2ban to block wordpress login attempts

Today while monitoring traffic on my server I noticed that there was 1 IP from UK that is keep accessing my server and generating noticeable amount of traffic. I did a quick IP lookup and netstat to find that the IP was accessing port 80 on my server. I then went to the httpd logs and searched for the IP and wala! it is trying to log into my wordpress site attempt after attempt. Since I already have fail2ban running on my server I decided to look into using fail2ban to ban lots of failed attempts looking at my logs… Continue Reading