How to monitor RAID status on N54L?

[#1]

I have an N54L with a Smart Array p212 RAID controller. The N54L has VMWare ESXi installed. Is there a way I can manually check the RAID controller and disk status, or any automated way I can monitor it (SNMP, etc)?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

I figured this out. I downloaded the ESXi Offline Bundle from here:

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/apr2013/esxi-5x-bundles/hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4.5-3.zip

Then copied it to the ESXi data store and installed it from the command line:

esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4.5-3.zip

After that I rebooted the ESXi server and the RAID health shows up under the vSphere client.

[#3]

Hello,

Have you managed to get this working on ESXI Version 5.5?

I've installed the following zip file and installed it, but after the re-boot I can't see the RAID config.

File - hp-esxi5.5uX-bundle-1.6-22.zip

The install test was - esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/546fb31d-c3fcfde0-7f57-38eaa7abfbc9 hp-esxi5.5uX-bundle-1.6-22.zip

The ESXI can tell the hard drives that make up the storage are using slots 2 and 3, but it would be goot to monitor them properly.

Any help / guidance would be gand.

Thanks in Advance

James

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rtrbnc wrote:

I figured this out. I downloaded the ESXi Offline Bundle from here:

http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/apr2013/esxi-5x-bundles/hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4.5-3.zip

Then copied it to the ESXi data store and installed it from the command line:

esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4.5-3.zip

After that I rebooted the ESXi server and the RAID health shows up under the vSphere client.

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