As I mentioned in an earlier post one of the issues we’ve had with the idea of deploying ESX 3i vs 3.5 is the ability to monitor the hardware since neither the DRAC card nor the BMC via IPMI seem to be able to give us all the info we need. I had looked briefly at the VI-Perl toolkit and the VI SDK but not spent a lot of time on it.
I installed 3i on a new PE 2900 today to take a look at this again. I had previously pulled one of the disks in the server so that I could be certain something was “wrong” so I had something to test against. Below is the “Health Status” as shown via the VI client. As you can see “Storage” shows up as being in a warning state since RAID 6 Virtual Disk shows as being in a “Warning” state. It’s worth noting that since I pulled a hard drive Physical Disk 7 does not show in the list of items under Storage. I’m assuming that if the drive was actually bad it’d show up as failed. But I don’t know that I want to damage a perfectly good drive to find out.
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