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  • 1.  How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 06:39 AM

    hello...

    i have in my host 6.7 disk fault  :

    0.26.2.179Disk Drive Bay 2 HDD2 1 Warning35Storage12/16/2019, 5:14:51 PM

    there is anyway to see the serial number details on cli

    or get logs of this disk



  • 2.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 08:02 AM

    You could check your iLO/iDRAC? That should give you a better indication of which disk is having an issue



  • 3.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 08:04 AM

    i don't have an idrac \ilo

    and i don't want downtime



  • 4.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 09:44 AM

    There are 2 ways:

    1. Open putty and run any of below commands and see what you need:

    esxcfg-scsidevs -l

    esxcfg-scsidevs -l | egrep -i 'display name'

    2. Open web client connection directly to ESXi host. Select "Storage" under Navigator panel. ESXi will then open "Datastores" panel on right. Open Devices tab. The serial number should be located at the end, after the device's model number.



  • 5.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 11:41 AM

    i try ...

    but its see only the volume raid 5 no the the physical disks:



  • 6.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 11:43 AM

    The physical disks arent being presented to the OS, a RAID Disk is.... Do you have no OOB management at all?



  • 7.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 11:44 AM

    i try ...

    but its see only the volume raid 5 no the the physical disks:



  • 8.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Dec 17, 2019 11:46 AM

    Thats what you would expect because a single logical disk is being presented to ESXi from your RAID Controller. What make is your server? With HPE you get a tool called hpacucli for managing smart array controllers from the shell



  • 9.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Feb 10, 2021 10:59 PM

    Hi T180985,

    Thank you for the answer. I am having Dell PowerEdge R720, R620 etc. Will the hpacucli utility work on Dell.

    Would appreciate any pointers that you can give about hapcucli.

    Thank you



  • 10.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Feb 10, 2021 11:11 PM

    Hello.

    PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) Command Line Interface (CLI) utility to manage your RAID controller

    https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000177280/how-to-use-the-poweredge-raid-controller-perc-command-line-interface-cli-utility-to-manage-your-raid-controller

     



  • 11.  RE: How to Retrieve the Serial Number of a Storage Drive

    Posted Mar 01, 2021 12:57 AM

    Hi ,

    Thank you for your response. Do you also have an idea about a command to retrieve details of a NIC card on esxi?

    I tried 

    esxcli network nic list

    but it does not show some details like speed , version and firmware. Also it is difficult to understand the model and vendor

    Thank you

    Dee