Free Monitor, Free ESXi, Monitor Raid Hardware on Dell?

[mudtoe]

Hi folks:

I'm thinking about installing the free version of ESXi on my Dell 2950 server, and I wanted to find out if there was a way to monitor the hardware raid status once I did that, so that I'd know if a disk went bad. Will the free Veeam Monitor be able to do that on the free ESXi software? I read somewhere the SNMP was disabled in the free version of ESXi, so I wasn't sure if it was possible to monitor the condition of the raid array with that limition in place.

mudtoe

[Gostev]

Mudtoe, yes version 4.0 should be able to do this, since it monitors hardware status via CIM/SMASH and not SNMP.

[mudtoe]

Thanks for the response. What's the ETA of version 4?


mudtoe

[Gostev]

No precise ETA, but it should be out in just a few weeks.