Hello Heracles31,   It does look like there are compatibility issues.   With the H700 and non Dell drives that Erman mentions, I also see that ESXi 6.7 is not validated for the R820 Your PowerEdge R820 supports these operating systems: Up to VMware ESXi 6.5 [URL]   You can try to install a version of OpenManage Server Administrator to give you management of the drives but note I don't see a version that supports both the R820 and ESXi 6.7.   Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) for ESXi 6.5 U3, v9.4.0 (ESXi 6.7 not listed as supported OS) [URL]   Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) for ESXi 6.7 U3, v10.3.0.0 (R820 is not listed as compatible system) [URL]   Maybe someone in the community has used this combination of hardware and OS and can share their experience.
Hi, About 3 years ago, I bought myself a great server (R820 ; 32 cores ; 256G RAM) for my personal use. I bought it used from a place where they mix and match hardware from used servers to create custom ones. Now, my problem is that I am unable to monitor the health of my drives, neither the Virtual Disk (Optimal, degraded, Offline, ...) nor the physical ones (Good ; Contains Smart Errors, Offline, ...). I did not put too much effort about it so far because the server was at my place and my data were in a tower server. Now, I am about to deploy it in a data center in colocation, so network monitoring would be much more important. Even more, while getting ready for the move, I did a few attended reboot and noticed that the virtual drive was degraded. Also, 2 drives had smart errors. Still, everything was flashing green... I replaced the worst of the the two drives and 2 more are on their way. All of them were bought new at the same time I bought the server but online from different providers. So the details are : R820 ( but it changed a lot since shipped...)  BIOS vers 2.7.0 Lifecycle Controller 2.65.65.65 iDrac Enterprise 7 ESXi 6.7 U3 (Build 17700523) ; customized by DellEMC PERC H700 (firmware 12.10.3-0001) Dell 64 Bit uEFI Diagnostics version 4247A1 Dell OS Driver Pack 15.10.03   All of that can be seen from the Drac's web interface. I have full admin control over everything. ESXi is managed from its Web UI and I can access its shell as root. I also have full access to the iDrac and can interact with it from its Web UI or the OpenManage IOS App on my iPhone. In the iDrac, I have error RAC0501 displayed in the Physical Disks Overview box, itself in first page when I click on Storage. When I click on Physical Disks in the menu below "Storage", I see RAC0503 : There are no out-of-band capable controllers to be displayed. Check if the host system is powered off or shutdown. Same when I click Virtual Disks one level below. Same for Controllers and Enclosures. When the Lifecycle controller tested the hardware, each and every drive returned error (EFI invalid parameters) 2000-0151. All the 8 drives are there (Seagate Savvio 900G), configured in a single Raid-10 logical drive. Disk 1 was faulty and is now replaced. Drive 6 shows Smart Errors when I look at it from the PERC's menu if I interupt the boot up and open its menu. That PERC menu sees all the drives without problem. So, the PERC sees everything and can do it all. The iDrac sees the PERC but can not do much with it (returns its model and firmware and that's it). I already did a reset on the iDrac, without any progress. I tried to remove and re-insert the PERC. No gain either. I also installed the iDrac Service Module (3.4.1) in ESXi without getting more information that way either. Any idea what I should do to probe my server for its virtual and physical drives' detailed status ? I do not mind if it is from ESXi, SNMP, OpenManage or whatever that would do it. I just wish to have a way to monitor these drives. Thanks in advance and should I have missed some important details, do not hesitate to ask.
Unable to monitor my drives' health