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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Chris,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is there a latest version of smartmontools for ESX host, like 7.3.1?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Justin</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0cm"><b>发件人<span lang="EN-US">: </span>
</b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:Christian.Franke@t-online.de">Christian Franke</a><br>
</span><b>发送时间<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">2023</span>年<span lang="EN-US">6</span>月<span lang="EN-US">4</span>日<span lang="EN-US"> 21:34<br>
</span><b>收件人<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:justin.wu.b@outlook.com">Justin WuB</a><br>
</span><b>抄送<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de">smartmontools-support@listi.jpberlin.de</a><br>
</span><b>主题<span lang="EN-US">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Re: [smartmontools-support] smartctl error on ESXi 6.7</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:SimSun"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Justin WuB wrote:<br>
> Hi SmartMonTools Support,<br>
><br>
> I want to check the NVME info on the ESXi 6.7, and I found <br>
> SmartMonTools has no official support for ESXi.<br>
><br>
> I google it and there's one link got my notice <br>
> '<a href="http://pfoo.unscdf.org/esxi/smartctl-6.6-4433.x86_64.vib">http://pfoo.unscdf.org/esxi/smartctl-6.6-4433.x86_64.vib</a>'.So I
<br>
> downloaded it, but unfortunately it returned an error:<br>
><br>
> /[root@networkDevice:/tmp] /opt/smartmontools/smartctl -d nvme <br>
> /dev/disks/eui.34333630524493040025384300000001 -x/<br>
> /smartctl 6.6 2017-08-08 r4433 [x86_64-linux-6.7.0] (daily-20170808)/<br>
> /Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, <br>
> <a href="http://www.smartmontools.org/">www.smartmontools.org/</a><br>
> /<br>
> /<br>
> /Read NVMe Identify Controller failed: NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD: Function <br>
> not implemented/<br>
> //<br>
> ESXi 6.7 and smartctl 6.6 are both very old. I'm not sure what the <br>
> problem is.<br>
<br>
Please see:<br>
<a href="https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1333">https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1333</a><br>
and further links in this FAQ entry:<br>
<a href="https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/FAQ#IssmartctlavailableforVMwareESXi">https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/FAQ#IssmartctlavailableforVMwareESXi</a><br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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