User Guide for Solid State Drive Data Center Tool 3.0.0 is missing

[GJago]

In contrast to the statement https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/23931 there "The DCT User Guide is included in both of the downloadable ZIP files [...]" I can't find the Data Center Tool User Guide in any of the three zip files.

[idata]

Here is the link to the guide. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/solid-state-drives/ssd-software/000020016.html User and Install Guides for Intel® SSD Data Center Tool

We posted it on the support site. My apologies for not including the link in the download.

[GJago]

Thank you for this link. It should also be posted on the tool's download page where I linked to in my first post.

Now I'm able to do a

isdct.exe show -display raw -smart C2

resulting in these lines:

- SMART Attributes BTWL4200007H480QGN -

- C2 -

Raw : 46

- SMART Attributes PHWL429200FB480QGN -

- C2 -

Raw : 49

[VBela]

So I managed to figure this one out on my own. As mentioned above after installing the Data Center Tool 3.0.0 on my ESXi 5.5 host, rebooting, I then:

Had no idea where isdct was installed to, so I ran "find | grep intel" to determined its location. Once I had that available I was able to determine the correct isdct commands via some non-intel blogs. I then ran the following to update the NVMe on my ESXi host using PuTTY over SSH.

./opt/intel/isdct/isdct show -intelssd

Then loaded the firmware update using

./opt/intel/isdct/isdct load -intelssd 0

("0" being the ID of this nvme device on my host)

Rebooted the host after the above was complete.

After reboot was complete, to verify that everything was completed as expected I ran the show command once more.

./opt/intel/isdct/isdct show -intelssd

Note: The "." dot prefixed to the path, as isdct is not attached to ESXi system $PATH environment.

You can either CD to the isdct directory, but you will still need to prefix the ./ to the isdct executable: "./isdct show -intelssd" etc from /opt/intel/isdct/ as the active path.

Hopefully this helps someone in the immediate future until some official documentation is released.

Cheers,

V