Hi
I'm experimenting with an ESXi 6.5 installation on a Intel NUC6I5SYH for a lab enviroment. I'm aware of the "no official support", but please hear me out :-)
As stated, I'm installing ESXi on a Intel NUC which has a Intel 600p NVMe SSD installed. For the most part everything works fine, but in the last month I have experienced twice that the partitions on the SSD disappears from ESXi. A simple reboot of the device will bring everything back to normal, but during the time with no access to the content of the SSD, the VM's are (of cause) not responding.
I can, however, log on to the web-interface of ESXi 6.5 and from there I see that the SSD is still recognized (I can see the make and model of the SSD), but the capacity is "0 bytes". If I log on to the ESXi host via SSH and do a "df -h" I see two partitions: one which is around 4 GB and one which is 0 bytes. This makes me think, that the SSD is not totally dead,
Even though VMware is not supporting this setup, I wonder what my next troubleshooting step should be. Does the ESXi-installation have a CLI command to read out SMART-data or "rescan" the SSD for partitions? Something to guide me in a direction if I should RMA the SSD, the NUC or just give up on ESXi in this setup.
I don't really have any logs about the incident since ESXi doesn't have anywhere to write the logs to when this problem occurs.
Thanks!