In Intel NVMe devices, the secure-wipe support show “Unsupported”

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The secure wipe feature is Not supported on Intel VMD NVMe devices.

Example:
The sample device "t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPE2KE016T8_____________________PHLN010301341P6AGN__00000001" does not support "secure-wipe" feature.

To check whether this is an IAVMD driver managed device or not, the following steps could be followed.

1. Get the path information for the given device

host\> esxcfg-mpath -l -d t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPE2KE016T8_____________________PHLN010301341P6AGN__00000001
pscsi.vmhba3-pscsi.0:1-t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPE2KE016T8_____________________PHLN010301341P6AGN__00000001
   Runtime Name: vmhba3:C0:T1:L0
   Device: t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPE2KE016T8_____________________PHLN010301341P6AGN__00000001
   Device Display Name: Local NVMe Disk (t10.NVMe____INTEL_SSDPE2KE016T8_____________________PHLN010301341P6AGN__00000001)
   Adapter: vmhba3 Channel: 0 Target: 1 LUN: 0
   Adapter Identifier: pscsi.vmhba3
   Target Identifier: pscsi.0:1
   Plugin: HPP
   State: active
   Transport: parallel

2. Check whether the given device through this path (here, it is vmhba3) is managed by "iavmd" driver

host\> esxcli storage core adapter list
HBA Name Driver Link State UID Capabilities Description
-------- ---------- ---------- ------------------------------------ ------------------- 
vmhba3 iavmd link-n/a pscsi.vmhba3 (0000:3a:05.5) Intel Corporation Intel Volume Management Device

Note: The vmhha3 is managed by "iavmd" driver.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0.0

Resolution

There is no workaround.