Disk failure notifications?

[Bolgard]

Hi,

During the weekend I've successfully installed VMware ESXi on a PRIMERGY RX100S4 with the external RAID-controller Adaptec 3405. I now have a question: is there any way to view the status of the physical disks? Will I get a alarm somehow if a disk fails?

Thanks

[couak]

You can see your hardware's health in the "Configuration" tab

If you want to set alerts, you can try to set-up SNMP traps or use my check script : http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7170

[Bolgard]

Thank you for your answer.

Yes, I can see hardware status there, but I can't see my physical disks. Check the following screenshots to see how it looks at my installation:

What should I set alerts on here? I can't see anything that corresponds to the physical disks?

[Dave_Mishchenko]

ESXi does not have the necessary CIM provider to monitor Adaptec controllers so you won't be able to see the health status for those.

[Bolgard]

Ouch.

Why is the controller on the I/O compatibility list when ESXi can't monitor it's health? How do I get around this?

Thanks for answering!