It was, he thought, the ugliest beautiful thing he’d ever done.
Second run: The installer launched. The old, familiar blue-and-white wizard appeared. Hope flickered. Then, halfway through: download vsphere client 5.0 windows 10
The download had been its own odyssey. The official VMware site no longer listed 5.0. It was "end of life," "unsupported," "please upgrade." But the client who owned this server had gone bankrupt, then been bought, then forgotten. There was no budget. No upgrade. Just Leo and a yellowing sticky note on the monitor that read: "Root: password123" It was, he thought, the ugliest beautiful thing
Leo enabled it in Windows Features. Reboot. then been bought