[smartmontools-support] smartctl error on ESXi 6.7

[Justin WuB]

Hi Chris,

Is there a latest version of smartmontools for ESX host, like 7.3.1?

Thanks,
Justin


发件人: Christian Franke<mailto:Christian.Franke at t-online.de>
发送时间: 2023年6月4日 21:34
收件人: Justin WuB<mailto:justin.wu.b at outlook.com>
抄送: smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de<mailto:smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de>
主题: Re: [smartmontools-support] smartctl error on ESXi 6.7

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/<http://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

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