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How do I get hard disk health status in ILOM without HMP installed in host?
I am using a X4-2 server with an Esxi installed. Since there is no Hardware Management Package (HMP) available for Esxi, the hard disk health status in ILOM CLI always shows "Not Available".
e.g.
-> show /System -t health
......
/System/Storage | health | Not Available
/System/Storage/Disks/Disk_0 | health | Not Available
/System/Storage/Disks/Disk_1 | health | Not Available
/System/Storage/Disks/Disk_2 | health | Not Available
/System/Storage/Disks/Disk_3 | health | Not Available
Is it possible to detect hard disk failure/degrade by other CLI command?
Or is it possible to get RAID status via Esxi? The 4 HDDs are configured as RAID 10 in SCSI controll card.
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
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Hello Cho bon,
Can you please be more specific about the RAID card controller information in ILOM?
What does the following command show?
-> show /System/PCI_Devices/Add-on/Device_4
There are 2 types of LSI (Broadcom) 8 port 6Gb HBA controller available for Sun Server X4-2, one is called Erie (SGX-SAS6-INT-Z) and one is called Niwot (SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z)
Erie is using sas2ircu utility to manage the disks (https://www.broadcom.com/support/oem/oracle/6gb/sg_x_sas6-int-z ) and Niwot is using MegaCLI utility (https://www.broadcom.com/support/oem/oracle/6Gb/sg_x_sas6-r-int-z )
Alternatively you can use MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) which is a nice GUI tool. More information can be found here:
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Claudiu
Answers
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Hi.
X4-2 can be ordred with different type of RAID-card.
From You post is not clear what ESXi version you use.
One of popular RAID card for this server is LSI-based RAID card.
In this case this link can be usefull:
https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Monitoring_MegaRAID_Controllers_in_VMware
Regards,
Nik
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Hi, Nik
Thank you for your response.
ILOM stated SCSI controller is "Sun Storage 6Gb SAS PCIe HBA, Internal".
And Esxi version, "ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard".
I am reading your recommended URL and try to get hint from the clue.
Regards.
Cho
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Hello Cho bon,
Can you please be more specific about the RAID card controller information in ILOM?
What does the following command show?
-> show /System/PCI_Devices/Add-on/Device_4
There are 2 types of LSI (Broadcom) 8 port 6Gb HBA controller available for Sun Server X4-2, one is called Erie (SGX-SAS6-INT-Z) and one is called Niwot (SGX-SAS6-R-INT-Z)
Erie is using sas2ircu utility to manage the disks (https://www.broadcom.com/support/oem/oracle/6gb/sg_x_sas6-int-z ) and Niwot is using MegaCLI utility (https://www.broadcom.com/support/oem/oracle/6Gb/sg_x_sas6-r-int-z )
Alternatively you can use MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) which is a nice GUI tool. More information can be found here:
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Claudiu
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Hello Cho bon,
Did the previous note helped you in any way?
Have you managed to find the tool to monitor the health status of the disks/volumes?
Best regards,
Claudiu
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Thank you very much, Claudiu.
After about 3 years, I have to face the problem again since an HDD failure in a remote data center really happened.
And finally, I followd Claudiu's hint and found a thread in vmware helpful.
Solved: vsphere 6.7 LSI raid card, can't get drive status - Page 2 - VMware Technology Network VMTN
After installing sas2ircu into my Esxi(6.7), it shows HDD status at last.
[[email protected]:~] /opt/lsi/bin/sas2ircu 0 display
LSI Corporation SAS2 IR Configuration Utility.
Version 20.00.00.00 (2014.09.18)
Copyright (c) 2008-2014 LSI Corporation. All rights reserved.
Read configuration has been initiated for controller 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller information
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller type : SAS2008
BIOS version : 7.21.10.00
Firmware version : 11.05.04.00
Channel description : 1 Serial Attached SCSI
Initiator ID : 0
Maximum physical devices : 831
Concurrent commands supported : 1408
Slot : Unknown
Segment : 0
Bus : 80
Device : 0
Function : 0
RAID Support : Yes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
IR Volume information
------------------------------------------------------------------------
IR volume 1
Volume ID : 890
Volume Name : R1-300x2
Status of volume : Degraded (DGD)
Volume wwid : 060d1692b5e6226c
RAID level : RAID1
Size (in MB) : 285148
Physical hard disks :
PHY[0] Enclosure#/Slot# : 1:3
PHY[1] Enclosure#/Slot# : 0:0
IR volume 2
Volume ID : 891
Volume Name : R1-600x2
Status of volume : Okay (OKY)
Volume wwid : 005780a37f904dab
RAID level : RAID1
Size (in MB) : 571250
Physical hard disks :
PHY[0] Enclosure#/Slot# : 1:0
PHY[1] Enclosure#/Slot# : 1:1
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical device information
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initiator at ID #0
Device is a Hard disk
Enclosure # : 0
Slot # : 0
SAS Address : 0000000-0-0000-0000
State : Failed (FLD)
Manufacturer : SEAGATE
Model Number : ST930003SSUN300G
Firmware Revision : 0868
Serial No : 00100371MMC8
GUID : N/A
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
Device is a Hard disk
Enclosure # : 1
Slot # : 0
SAS Address : 5000cca-0-4374-e8d1
State : Optimal (OPT)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : HITACHI
Model Number : H109060SESUN600G
Firmware Revision : A7E0
Serial No : 001202B295JA
GUID : 5000cca04374e8d0
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
Device is a Hard disk
Enclosure # : 1
Slot # : 1
SAS Address : 5000cca-0-4374-06a9
State : Optimal (OPT)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 572325/1172123567
Manufacturer : HITACHI
Model Number : H109060SESUN600G
Firmware Revision : A7E0
Serial No : 001402C1U3MF
GUID : 5000cca0437406a8
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
Device is a Hard disk
Enclosure # : 1
Slot # : 3
SAS Address : 5000c50-0-1d33-3f39
State : Optimal (OPT)
Size (in MB)/(in sectors) : 286102/585937499
Manufacturer : SEAGATE
Model Number : ST930003SSUN300G
Firmware Revision : 0868
Serial No : 00100374MMA4
GUID : 5000c5001d333f3b
Protocol : SAS
Drive Type : SAS_HDD
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enclosure information
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enclosure# : 1
Logical ID : 500605b0:07bbb8a0
Numslots : 8
StartSlot : 0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAS2IRCU: Command DISPLAY Completed Successfully.
SAS2IRCU: Utility Completed Successfully.
Thank you very much, Claudiu.
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Hello @ Cho bon,
I am glad that you have sorted out the disk management solution and you can monitor the drives health status.
Best regards,
Claudiu