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Hengjie / tutorial.md
Last active March 31, 2024 13:08
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

@bastman
bastman / docker-cleanup-resources.md
Created March 31, 2016 05:55
docker cleanup guide: containers, images, volumes, networks

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

@maxim
maxim / task.yml
Created June 12, 2014 11:09
Adding github to known_hosts with ansible
- name: ensure github.com is a known host
lineinfile:
dest: /root/.ssh/known_hosts
create: yes
state: present
line: "{{ lookup('pipe', 'ssh-keyscan -t rsa github.com') }}"
regexp: "^github\\.com"
@matthewlehner
matthewlehner / autopgsqlbackup
Created July 11, 2012 16:10
Auto PostgreSQL backup script.
#!/bin/bash
#
# PostgreSQL Backup Script Ver 1.0
# http://autopgsqlbackup.frozenpc.net
# Copyright (c) 2005 Aaron Axelsen <axelseaa@amadmax.com>
#
# This script is based of the AutoMySQLBackup Script Ver 2.2
# It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/
#
# The PostgreSQL changes are based on a patch agaisnt AutoMySQLBackup 1.9
:+1:
:-1:
:airplane:
:art:
:bear:
:beer:
:bike:
:bomb:
:book:
:bulb: