1. What is this program for? This is the client utility on Windows & Linux for whole series of HW RAID Controllers of Areca Technology Corporation on VMware ESXi 6.X series. It corporates with Areca CIM Providers and specific driver version lately with appropriate capacities on http://www.areca.com.tw/ to access the infomation on the RAID controllers on ESXi server REMOTELY. The presentation of the utility is readable data for end users. If you expect the CIMXML output, wbemcli is a better solution for your request. If you have any further questions, please contact the support team, support@areca.com.tw. 2. How to start? Please copy the file, alc.exe for your Windows and alc for Linux. Then starts with "./alc -h" or "alc -h" to get further command info. For example: If IP address for the ESXi server is 192.168.0.38 and username on the ESXi server is root, in order to inquire all disks controlled by HW RAID system. ./alc -i 192.168.0.38 -u root disk info in order to inquire a specific volume. ./alc -i 192.168.0.38 -u root vsf inq vol=1 in order to create a RAIDSet. ./alc -i 192.168.0.38 -u root rsf create MemberDisks=3 Enc=2 Name=\"RAID#01\" DiskArray=14,15,16" in order to inquire system information. ./alc -i 192.168.0.38 -u root sys info 3. Q & A: I. When I run alc command, I got the error message as "CimomCurl::getResponseSSL connect errorHttp Exception: SSL connect error". How can I fix it? Edit /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg and add one line to enable SSLv3 as following "enableSSLv3: true", then restart the sfcbd-watchdog by "/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart". II. When I run alc command, I got the error message as "CimomCurl::getResponse Couldn't connect to serverHttp Exception: Couldn't connect to server". How can I fix it? Open Vsphere client and then find the tabs as folowing "Configuration"->"Security Profile"->"Services"->"Properties", then start "CIM Server". III. After I follow the step II and still can't fix the issue, please check /var/log/syslog.log to check out if there is a line as "sfcb-sfcbd[35698]: --- invalid type specification". If yes, please contact the support team to settle down the issue.