Adding PERC H700 3 drives in PowerEdge R710

Hi all

I need to increase the storage on a server running non-critical virtual machines.

I currently have 3 x 600GB discs and a VD in raid 5.
We will be adding 3 more identical drives, staying in raid 5 to increase storage.

I read a few posts about similar improvements where the user was instructed to use OMSA to add readers and keep the data. This server is not running Windows, it works VMESXi 5.5.0.  I'll add the disks directly by the PERC controller... My data at risk doing this? Should I rely on the added time to re - install VMESXi and restore my VMs?

Thanks in advance!

J

Hello

You are wanting to add the new disks for RAID 5 existing or create a new RAID 5? If you create a new, do it in the controller should not be any problem. If you are wanting to expand the existing table that needs to be done in OMSA and not in the controller. You can use OMSA for ESXi http://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/19/article/Product-Support/Self-support-Knowledgebase/enterprise-resource-center/Enterprise-Tools/OMSA

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