Stanislav Popov popstas

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

Steps:

Download the latest zsh package: https://packages.msys2.org/package/zsh?repo=msys&variant=x86_64

Example:

zsh-5.7.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

How to install CUDA / cuDNN / TensorRT on Ubuntu

Install NVIDIA drivers

Update & upgrade

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

	# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook.
	# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
	# [email protected]

	- hosts: all
	gather_facts: False

	tasks:
	- name: install python 2
	raw: test -e /usr/bin/python \|\| (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	## -----------------------------=[ WARNING ]=-------------------------------- ##
	#
	# This script is now woefully out of date due to which accounts ESXi allows to
	# ssh into the box as well as sticky folders/file flags.
	# I've since ported the whole thing to python with a lot of bells and whistles
	# and if i get around to making it public, i'll put a link here.
	#
	## -------------------------------=[ Info ]=--------------------------------- ##

	dl_require(['puppeteer', 'fs', 'fast-csv']).then(_modules => {
	const puppeteer = _modules.puppeteer;
	const fs = _modules.fs;
	const fast_csv = _modules['fast-csv'];
	let main_url = 'https://example.com/';
	let parsed = [];
	let parsed_pages = [];
	let need_parse = [main_url];
	let browser = null;