Some things I read said you need the HP insight management agent for esxi. I looked into that, but this isn't available for this model server. Other things I read said click on the Hardware Status tab of a host in vCenter and if you see your disks/raid controller listed, you can get alerts for it. My disks/raid controller doesn't show up on this tab.
Now I'm stumped...
Does any one know how I can setup alerts for a disk failure?
Thanks
Scratch that, it does show up under storage. But how do I get the alerts setup for disk failure?
There should be a default alarm already built into your vCenter 5.0 called Host storage status. There are a number of alarms that start with "Host hardware..." If you edit the alarms you can configure them to send SNMP traps and emails.