Monitoring your RAID array and hard disk health status using SMART should be priority No.1 on any system. Early warnings and preventative maintenance will save you time, money and huge headaches in the long run. It’s always a good practice to order your hard drives at different times or from multiple vendors in order to eliminate the …
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S.M.A.R.T disk monitoring on Linux using smartctl
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (0 Comments)RAID disk monitoring on Xenserver with email alerting
July 8th, 2011 | Posted by in Linux | Virtualization - (1 Comments)Unlike ESXi, Xenserver doesn’t really have much health monitoring built in (especially not the free license versions). Xenserver has always been the light weight, thin, streamlined and better performing virtualization product; though as time progresses Citrix is slowly adding more features and modifying their licensing structure to be more competitive. But fore now we’ll handle our …
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