Why does fstrim return " FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported" on ext4 partitions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guest on Vmware?

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Issue

  • fstrim command returns FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported on a Vmware guest

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Vmware

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