jjlolo Posted October 12, 2019 Share #1 Posted October 12, 2019 So I just bought 4X14TB seagate exos drives that I've installed under xpenology 6.2.2-2x Update 3 running as a DS3617xs under ESXI using the guide in the guide section and configured the drives aspassthrough SATA drives directly by attaching them as physical disks RDM (using vmkfstools -z, then add existing disk) XPenology is currently running parity checks, but I decided to look at the S.M.A.R.T. information to make sure the drives I just bought are ok. When I go to look at the info I get the error message: Failed to fetch S.M.A.R.T. information So I SSH'd into my ESXi server and ran the following command to read the S.M.A.R.T. data from the device: # esxcli storage core device smart get -d device I got the following info pretty much for all my 4 brand new drives: Parameter Value Threshold Worst ---------------------------- ----- --------- ----- Health Status OK N/A N/A Media Wearout Indicator N/A N/A N/A Write Error Count 100 1 100 Read Error Count 83 44 78 Power-on Hours 100 0 100 Power Cycle Count 100 20 100 Reallocated Sector Count 100 10 100 Raw Read Error Rate 83 44 78 Drive Temperature 42 0 42 Driver Rated Max Temperature 58 40 58 Write Sectors TOT Count 100 0 253 Read Sectors TOT Count 100 0 253 Initial Bad Block Count N/A N/A N/A So my questions: - How can I pass through S.M.A.R.T. info to XPenology so I can schedule tests etc - Are the values reported in ESXi ok? Some of them surprise me Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted October 12, 2019 Share #2 Posted October 12, 2019 afaik rdm cant do smart, its just a mapping of secors, not he actual disk/hardware you would ne vt-d and passthrough the pcie device (controller) ant you can't passthrough if the controller is used in esx itself (like having 6 port onbard controller and using one port for booting esxi, that "blocks" the controller for passthrough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjlolo Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) Ok, thanks for the suggestion. I'm currently booting from USB, and my esxi data store is an SSD using the optical drive controller, so logically if the controllers are separate, but I don't know about physically- perhaps could try to pass it through. I also have a P222 controller card that I could plug the 4HDDs to as well. While logically I understand what you're saying, is there a guide somewhere that illustrates it? Also, what did you mean by "you would ne vt-d"? Lastly, I know 6.7 allows the assignment of raw drives- would that fix things? Again, I couldn't find much detail on that. Edited October 12, 2019 by jjlolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted October 12, 2019 Share #4 Posted October 12, 2019 1 hour ago, jjlolo said: also have a P222 controller card that I could plug the 4HDDs to as well. only if it can present the disks without using any raid (IT or HBA mode) 1 hour ago, jjlolo said: While logically I understand what you're saying, is there a guide somewhere that illustrates it? https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1010789 1 hour ago, jjlolo said: Also, what did you mean by "you would ne vt-d"? your cpu/chipset need that feature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#I/O_MMU_virtualization_(AMD-Vi_and_Intel_VT-d) 1 hour ago, jjlolo said: Lastly, I know 6.7 allows the assignment of raw drives- would that fix things? Again, I couldn't find much detail on that. RDM stands for raw device mapping so i guess its the same thing you already used but maybe you mean "Physical" mode https://geek-university.com/vmware-esxi/raw-device-mapping-rdm/ never tried that, my older hardware did not support it, the new hardware would but i'm more of a baremetal fan when it comes to nas and use virtualbox on a desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamzor Posted December 9, 2019 Share #5 Posted December 9, 2019 (edited) If I understand this correct: If using ESXI 6.7 and and a CPU with intel v-d ( Intel Xeon E3-1265L v2 ) we could pass through smart info to xpenology? @IG-88 Or must you 100% have a HBA card and passthrough to the VM etc..? Edited December 9, 2019 by Jamzor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted December 9, 2019 Share #6 Posted December 9, 2019 i'm not using esxi at home, use the search here to find out about hba passthrough and smart or temp. readings i remember that even with passthrough it was not the same as using it baremetal, at least for some people phsical rdm and smart ... how about this? https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13910-xpe-in-esxi-with-rdm-passthrough-and-smart/ just dig a little here or use google, plenty of sources Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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