How do you know if a disk fails on a RAID array?

[jhoge]

Hi,

I want to run esxi on a stand alone Dell PowerEdge server with a 4 disk RAID 5 array. I'm curious what would happen if one of the disks in the RAID were to die. How would I know to replace it besides looking in the BIOS? The guest OS would have no idea it's running on top of a RAID, so the windows tools aren't going to work.

Thanks,

John

[Dave_Mishchenko]

ESXi is able to obtain hardware information through CIM providers. If you have an LSI based controller, you can go to Configuration > Health Status (look for the Health tab if you're using vCenter). If the CIM providers support the controller you should see the status of the controller, arrays and disks.




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[J1mbo]

This might help: http://blog.peacon.co.uk/hardware-health-alerting-with-esxi/

As said, the hardware needs to be listed in vSphere client under health status.

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