[smartmontools-support] smartctl error on ESXi 6.7

[Christian Franke]

Justin WuB wrote:
> Hi SmartMonTools Support,
>
> I want to check the NVME info on the ESXi 6.7, and I found 
> SmartMonTools has no official support for ESXi.
>
> I google it and there's one link got my notice 
> 'http://pfoo.unscdf.org/esxi/smartctl-6.6-4433.x86_64.vib'.So I 
> downloaded it, but unfortunately it returned an error:
>
> /[root at networkDevice:/tmp] /opt/smartmontools/smartctl -d nvme 
> /dev/disks/eui.34333630524493040025384300000001 -x/
> /smartctl 6.6 2017-08-08 r4433 [x86_64-linux-6.7.0] (daily-20170808)/
> /Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
> www.smartmontools.org/
> /
> /
> /Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Function 
> not implemented/
> //
> ESXi 6.7 and smartctl 6.6 are both very old. I'm not sure what the 
> problem is.

Please see:
https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1333
and further links in this FAQ entry:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/FAQ#IssmartctlavailableforVMwareESXi

Regards,
Christian