One annoyance when running DSM under ESXi is that virtual disks can't properly handle its SMART interrogations. This is because Synology embedded a custom version of the smartctl binary into its own libraries and utilities, ignoring standard config files that could generate compatible queries or suppress them. The result is spurious error messages logged to /var/log/messages every few seconds, wasting disk space and SSD lifecycle, and making it hard to see what's happening. If you use virtual di