TD100 VMWare ESXi 3.5 U4 RAID health status

[maclmu]

Hi,

i am using a TD100 (6429) with an 8k RAID adapter with VMWare ESXi 3.5 U4. The system is working fine with one exception:

I can not monitor the health status of my 8k RAID. It wont show up on the health status page in the VM client. Therefore the only way to check the status would be to look at the front lights of the server itself. That does not seem to be a good  solution since it is out of sight in the server room.

In the VM forums i just found that some kind of CIM would be needed.

Is there any way to resolve this issue?

[erik Community SuperMod]

welcome to the forum!

the following document should help in using VMWare with IBM Director and ServeRAID Manager:

http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101047

[maclmu]

Does this really apply to ESX i? It only describes the installation of the agent for ESX. Normally the ESXi does not even show a console. I am not sure if i could install additional software thru the "support" console.

[erik Community SuperMod]

i'm not personally familiar with VMWare or its various versions and cannot say whether this applies to ESXi.   the document i linked is dated 2007 and was the newest information i could find.

[maclmu]

Thanks for your effort and quick reply. Maybe someone else has another idea