Scrap and rebuild

All the time I spent on building my home lab was been scrapped.  With new plans in mind I've scrapped my linux environment in trade for a Windows environment.  It really saddens me to do so but with new goals in sight I have to realign my future and calibrate my focus.  I've picked up a third server a Dell PowerEdge805(IIRC) which will be my VMWare ESXi box to host all of my client\victim VMs.  My PowerEdge 2950 got a RAM upgrade to 32Gbs(Yum) and is my DC, DHCP, DNS and everything and anything else I want to throw at it running eval version of Windows Server 2012 Standard.  My tiny PowerEdge(somethings I can't remember) will continue to be my WebGoat box.

My home lab domain will continue to be Nerv.corp.  I'm not going to explain myself and Gainax is reading this um... What can I say, I'm a big fan.

Progress so far has been:

Installed ESXi on Melchior, but haven't configured
Installed Windows Server 2012 on Balthasar
     Working on Active Directory structure and how I want to organize everything.
     DHCP working... kinda.  - It's successfully assigning IPs so its good enough.
     DNS... role installed but I have to fiddle with this some more. I have never had to do anything with DNS.

Hope to get some VMs on Melchior soon and my old Webgoat box(Casper) is going to remain a linux box but I do plan on wipping it and reinstalling webgoat mainly so I can document the webgoat install on linux.  I know I made some posts here with the trouble I had with the install but now I want  a better install document on it for future reference.

Yes my servers are named after the MAGI Super Computers.

New blog layout is to make it easier to read.  Sometimes I was having a hard time with the small white font on black background.

HomeLab Headaches Ep.6

Meh, not really any head headaches today.  I got the MediaServer up and running since Tuesday night, with all my files available I took a few days to reap the fruits of my labor and watched a few of the videos and\or shows I haven't watched in a while, specially on a TV.

I have setup a WINXP SP2 and a WIN7 VMs.  Tried to setup a OSX 10.6 and it didn't happen.  I tried three times and once on my work pc and it still gave me the same error, which confirmed that my iso is BAD. : ( booooo So now I have to get my hands on a good OSX iso.

I attended Rapid7's "Using Metasploit on Kali Linux, the Evolution of BackTrack" webinar today.  It was pretty cool, from what I saw Kali Linux looks bad ass and I have downloaded the x32, x64 and the VM versions.  The x32 is going on my netbook that is collecting dust in my room, the x64 is just to have it and the VM may find it's way into my Virtualbox.  Also Rapid7 has a "metasploitable vulnerable machine" which I have downloaded as well to check out later.

One thing I liked about Kali Linux if I remember this correctly is that all of it's services are OFF by default so  its as the old slogan on Backtrack used to say "the quieter you become, the more you are able to hear...", so Kali is quiet by default lol.  Also the big change is from Ubuntu to Debian base linux, there was something about stream line updates, but I can't remember exactly what it was.

Next thing on the Home Lab is getting the network together.  Gotta bring out my Cisco bibles... i think they weight more then the router or the switch it self lol