I currently have a Dell Poweredge 2950 running ESXi 5.5.
My datastore is four drives in RAID 5 configured in the PERC 6/i config utility on bootup.
My question is, what do I do if/when one of these drives fail? Do I just pop it out and put in a replacement? Is there anything software wise I need to do? I've heard of Dell OpenManage but it looks like I cant install it without having a windows vcenter server, which wouldnt really make sense because I only have one ESXi server…
Any advice would be appreciated.
Best Answer
I'm sorry. With a single host, you won't have any proactive monitoring or email/SNMP alerts available for this system.
You can install the LSI or Dell Offline .VIB bundle to at least get hardware RAID health status to show up in your vSphere client.