Smartctl

Monitoring disk health on VMware ESXi with smartctl

Monitoring disk health on VMware ESXi with smartctl

Standalone ESXi hosts and small vSphere clusters often run on local SATA or SAS disks — in a homelab, a branch office, or a backup host. When one of those disks starts to fail, you want to know about it from your monitoring, not from a datastore that suddenly goes read-only.

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