With the major manufacturer's (HP, Dell, etc) you can expect excellent out-of-the-box support with vSphere. That includes a wealth of sensors for health monitoring.
Right now, the smaller SMB company that I am employed by is looking into a local supplier for servers. They deal in SuperMicro. On the surface, I don't dislike SuperMicro. However, my experience has been that their RAID controllers, which are Avago / LSI re-brands, do not have good support for health monitoring in vCenter Server. Even after installing custom drivers & VIB modules for this purpose, they don't tend to provide good, reliable data.
So, I suppose my question is: Does anyone know of any type of list of RAID controllers that have good integration with vCenter, out-of-the-box? The basic HCL from VMWare does not cover more in-depth issues like health monitoring. Trying to dig into this and find a RAID controller for locally built servers is ... frustrating.
Thanks in advance.
