How can I check health statuses of the disks from ESXi ?

[zpnd]

Hello,

I'm loosing one of the datastores frequently. There is no particular time frame but happened twice in last month. I think there is problem with one of the disks. Is there way to check from ESXi ?

There are 4 x 1.5 TB SATA disks that configured as RAID 10.

Thank you.

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi,

You can check the status of your hardware from ESXi Hardware Status tab. The hardware status tab shows status of your complete system, as for disks you should check the Storage option and it will show its status.

Hope this information is useful

Nikhil

[zpnd]

Hi Nikhil,

I already checked that option before starting a discussion but it seems I don't have one. I couldn't find any "Hardware Status" tab under vSphere client. Do I have to enable/open that feature first ?

[weinstein5]

Majke sure you are under he Hosts and Clusters view - the hardware status tab is availabel when you selec a host -

[Nikhil_Patwa]

Hi,

I hope you are logging in as root user, if so then there is some prob with your system, the hardware status tab should be available.

You need to enable the hardware status tab, try rebooting the server.

Nikhil

[zpnd]

Yep, I'm in the right place but no luck.

[zpnd]

How ? I googled about the hardware tab but no luck.

I also rebooted the server just a day ago, because of the datastore issue.

[BharatR]

Hi,

Check with the below command

1. vdf -h
   
   The output appears similar to: 
   
   Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.9G 3.0G  1.6G 66% /
/dev/sda1 99M 18M 77M 19% /boot
none 145M 0 145M 0%  /dev/shm
/dev/sda7 2.0G 135M 1.7G 8% /var/log
/vmfs/devices 439G 0 439G 0%  /vmfs/devices
/vmfs/volumes/458865ba-b31110fd-43d5-00127994e616
68G 47G  20G 69%  /vmfs/volumes/San_Storage
/vmfs/volumes/45b5eb1a-808343db-ecab-00114335854b
26G  9.7G 16G 36% /vmfs/volumes/Local_Storage

Note:  The partitions shown are dependant on the VMFS volumes you have defined and  presented to the ESX or ESXi host.