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Hi SmartMonTools Support,</div>
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I want to check the NVME info on the ESXi 6.7, and I found SmartMonTools has no official support for ESXi.<br>
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I google it and there's one link got my notice '<a href="http://pfoo.unscdf.org/esxi/smartctl-6.6-4433.x86_64.vib" id="LPlnk970973">http://pfoo.unscdf.org/esxi/smartctl-6.6-4433.x86_64.vib</a>'.So I downloaded it, but unfortunately it returned an error:</div>
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<i><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">[root@networkDevice:/tmp] /opt/smartmontools/smartctl -d nvme /dev/disks/eui.34333630524493040025384300000001 -x</span></i>
<div class="ContentPasted2"><i><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">smartctl 6.6 2017-08-08 r4433 [x86_64-linux-6.7.0] (daily-20170808)</span></i></div>
<div class="ContentPasted2"><i><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org</span></i></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted2"><i><span style="color: rgb(12, 100, 192);">Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Function not implemented</span></i></div>
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ESXi 6.7 and smartctl 6.6 are both very old. I'm not sure what the problem is. <br>
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Any help will be much appreciated!</div>
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Thanks,</div>
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Justin<br>
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