Installing IBM Storage Scale Erasure Code Edition on VMware virtual machine

In the Storage Adapters page, select the NVMe storage adapter, in Device property page, get the Name of the storage adapter device.

Use the esxcli command to get detailed information of this NVMe device and property.

[root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware pci list
0000:da:00.0
Address: 0000:da:00.0
   Segment: 0x0000
   Bus: 0xda
   Slot: 0x00
   Function: 0x0
   VMkernel Name: vmhba3
   Vendor Name: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
   Device Name: Thinksystem U.2 PM983 NVMe SSD
   Configured Owner: VMkernel
   Current Owner: VMkernel
   Vendor ID: 0x144d
   Device ID: 0xa808
   SubVendor ID: 0x1d49
   SubDevice ID: 0x403b
   Device Class: 0x0108
   Device Class Name: Non-Volatile memory controller
   Programming Interface: 0x02
   Revision ID: 0x00
   Interrupt Line: 0x0b
   IRQ: 255
   Interrupt Vector: 0x00
   PCI Pin: 0x00
   Spawned Bus: 0x00
   Flags: 0x3001
   Module ID: 90
   Module Name: nvme_pcie
   Chassis: 0
   Physical Slot: 73
   Slot Description: Bay 9
   Device Layer Bus Address: s00000049.00
   Passthru Capable: true
   Parent Device: PCI 0:215:2:0
   Dependent Device: PCI 0:218:0:0
   Reset Method: Function reset
   FPT Sharable: true
   NUMA Node: 1
   Extended Device ID: 0
   Extended Device Name:
[root@localhost:~] esxcli nvme device namespace list -A vmhba3
Namespace ID  Status  Device Name
------------  ------  -----------
           1  Active  eui.343731304d7003670025384500000001
[root@localhost:~]

In above example, for the NVMe storage adapter vmhba3, the PCI address is 00:DA:00 and the NVMe device name of its namespace is eui.343731304d7003670025384500000001.

Use the ID in the device name 343731304d7003670025384500000001 as the hardware label for this NVMe disk.