Hi,
I'm setting up an all-flash vSAN 6.6 platform and my capacity tier is Intel DC P4500 SSDPE2KX020T7 NVMe drives with firmware QDV1013D. vSAN shows warning on controller firmware in health check, it recommends VDV10110. I installed SSD Data Center Tool version 3.0.9 (tried older versions too) onto ESXi 6.5 U1 to update firmware but it does not work. Here are the steps per instructions:
esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
esxcli software acceptance get
CommunitySupported
esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/intel_ssd_data_center_tool-3.0.9-400.vib
esxcli software vib list | grep intel
intel_ssd_data_center_tool 3.0.9-400 Intel CommunitySupported 2017-12-18
cd /opt/intel/isdct
./isdct show -intelssd
No results
Enable logging:
./isdct set -system LogFile = 'log.txt'
./isdct set -system EnableLog = 'true'
Set EnableLog successful.
./isdct show -intelssd
No results
more log.txt
21:22:08:164981 [debug] tdk_interface_dll.cpp(259) SendXMLMessage: Entering
21:22:08:167676 [debug] TDKInterface.cpp(522) scan: Entering
21:22:08:167697 [debug] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(63) scan: Entering
21:22:08:167709 [debug] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(100) scanPhysicalDevices: Entering
21:22:08:167854 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:167883 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme0
21:22:08:167950 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:167966 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme1
21:22:08:168013 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168027 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme2
21:22:08:168072 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168086 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme3
21:22:08:168129 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168144 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme4
21:22:08:168187 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168202 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme5
21:22:08:168245 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168259 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme6
21:22:08:168303 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168317 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme7
21:22:08:168360 [error] Connection_Path.cpp(91) open: vmk_MgmtUserInit error: 19
21:22:08:168374 [error] DeviceFinder_NVME.cpp(134) scanPhysicalDevices: Failed to connect to device. Ignoring intel-nvme8
Any ideas how I can go about updating the firmware so that vSAN can verify it? TIA!