[smartmontools-support] Getting smartctl for ESXi/VMWare

[Claudio Kuenzler]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:15 AM Schorschi Decker <schorschi at dc.rr.com>
wrote:

>
> Moreover, ESXi already has extensive monitoring explicitly designed to
> integrate to vSphere vCenter in a production environment for such.
>

This monitoring, Schorschi mentions, is also available remotely using the
CIM interface (defaults to tcp/5989) when enabled.
You can use check_esxi_hardware monitoring plugin to make use of that so
you don't need to have vSphere open.
Most servers allow monitoring of local storage, but SMART errors are not
always detected.
Some vendors offer deeper drive monitoring and then present the drive with
a pre-emptive failure (which is triggered by an internal threshold of
errors in the SMART table).
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