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NVMe and SATA health data on ESXi: some links to investigate

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/25

(Edit 20221202: added one more link on “REALLOCATED SECTOR CT below threshold”)

Somehow, health data of my NVMe and SATA drives do not show up as health information on the web-ui of my ESXi playground rig.

So far, I noticed that ESXi runs a smartd, but does not ship with a smartctl, nor health data ends up in the web user interface. So you cannot see the state of NVMe and SATA devices easily.

Still these devices deteriorate over time and afterwards die, so below are some links to investigate later.

Goal is to use my own thresholds to set warning and error levels.

Some log entries:

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