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janeczku / rancher-url-change.md
Last active March 18, 2024 17:37
Change the hostname/URL and certificate of an existing Rancher installation

Steps to change the URL of Rancher installation and switch from a self-signed certificate to a certificate signed by recognized CA.

  1. Change the Rancher server-url setting to the new URL:
    • Navigate to https://<old_rancher_hostname>/g/settings/advanced
    • Edit server-url to https://<new_rancher_hostname>
  2. Clear the private CA certificate for the old certificate
    • Navigate to https://<old_rancher_hostname>/g/settings/advanced
    • Next to cacerts click context menu -> View in API
    • Click Edit
    • Clear the content of the value field
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Hengjie / tutorial.md
Last active July 22, 2024 18:07
How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare ESXI 6.5 as RDMs

How to passthrough SATA drives directly on VMWare EXSI 6.5 as RDMs

There aren't many tutorials about this, the only tutorials I've found were about passing through entire PCIe cards to VMs, or refered to old ESXI versions (below 6.5) that used a more comprehensive desktop client instead of the web app. In v6.5, the web app was introduced and the desktop client was deprecated. You used to be able to setup RDMs in the desktop client, but with the introduction of the web console, this is no longer the case. This tutorial shows you how to pass SATA HDDs to the virtual machine on VMWare ESXI 6.5. This tutorial is partially based on VMWare's own KB and the now deprecated Forza IT blog post.

A word about VMWare ESXI 6.7

There is now an option while editing your VM's settings to add a New raw disk when you click `Add ha