"Check that against the official VMware archive," he said. "If it matches, it's clean."
She found a cached VMware knowledge base article from 2017 that listed the official checksums for ESXi 6.5 GA. She compared them. vmware esxi iso download 6.5
The next morning, her manager approved a budget for a full migration off ESXi 6.5. Aria drafted a new policy: All critical ISOs shall be archived to immutable object storage with their SHA256 checksums. Forever. "Check that against the official VMware archive," he said
And somewhere on a dusty shelf in the data center, she labeled a USB drive in sharpie: " he said. "If it matches