[smartmontools-support] Getting smartctl for ESXi/VMWare

[Marcin Szewczyk]

Hi,

I am thinking about using smartctl on an ESXi/VMWare 6.7 machine. I have
noticed that use of a static Linux build[1] of the tool on ESXi is
mentioned in bug reports, mailing list, blog entries and so on but I am
unable to find some (semi)official statement on how big is the risk of
using it on ESXi or at least some approximation if it usually works. I
am thinking about syscall/ioctl numbers and ABI in general. I suppose
there is no guarantee they match between Linux and ESXi, is there?

So how big is the risk of using the static build and e.g. calling some
unwanted feature of RAID/disk?

What is the easiest and safest way to get smartctl on ESXi? Is there any
native builds source?

[1]: https://builds.smartmontools.org/

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