Is there a way to get the CPU temperature on a platform with no IPMI, running ESXi ?
[root@localhost:~] esxcli hardware platform get
Platform Information
UUID: 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x30 0x9c 0x23 0x6b 0xf0 0x39
Product Name: MS-7B44
Vendor Name: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Serial Number: Default string
IPMI Supported: false
[root@localhost:~] vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep description
description = "Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8100 CPU @ 3.60GHz",
[root@localhost:~] lspci
0000:00:00.0 Bridge:
0000:00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x16) [PCIe RP[0000:00:01.0]]
0000:00:01.1 Bridge: Intel Corporation Skylake PCIe Controller (x8) [PCIe RP[0000:00:01.1]]
0000:00:02.0 Display controller:
0000:00:08.0 Generic system peripheral: Intel Corporation Skylake Gaussian Mixture Model
0000:00:14.0 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
0000:00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH Thermal Subsystem
0000:00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH CSME HECI #1
0000:00:17.0 Mass storage controller: Intel Corporation Union Point-H AHCI Controller [vmhba0]
0000:00:1b.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #17 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1b.0]]
0000:00:1b.2 Bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #19 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1b.2]]
0000:00:1c.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #1 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.0]]
0000:00:1c.4 Bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #5 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.4]]
0000:00:1c.6 Bridge: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PCI Express Root Port #7 [PCIe RP[0000:00:1c.6]]
0000:00:1f.0 Bridge:
0000:00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH PMC
0000:00:1f.3 Multimedia controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH HD Audio
0000:00:1f.4 Serial bus controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SMBus Controller
0000:00:1f.6 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V [vmnic0]
0000:02:00.0 Network controller:
0000:04:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
0000:06:00.0 Serial bus controller:
0000:07:00.0 Serial bus controller:
[root@localhost:~] vmware -vl
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-5969303
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 1
[root@localhost:~]
