[smartmontools-support] Getting smartctl for ESXi/VMWare

[Marcin Szewczyk]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:57:54PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> At least NVMe and MegaRAID on ESXi do not work with smartmontools:
> 
> https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/800
> https://www.smartmontools.org/ticket/1333
> 
> I don't remember any report about a working use case with smartmontools on
> ESXi.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:21:29AM +0200, Claudio Kuenzler wrote:
> 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.

Thank you all for input.

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