PowerEdge T610 Adding another drive to expand R5

OMSA is only supported as a local management software on Windows Servers (if you add yourservernameoripaddress:1311 to IE's Intranet Zone, it should attempt to log you in with your current credentials, requires a local or domain account).

I heard Dell was going to add the functionality to the BIOS utility via firmware update.  I don't know for sure if that has been implemented yet or even if the rumor was true, but if it has been added, you would need to make sure your PERC firmware was at the latest (after updating other system firmware). 

If the above is not yet available, the only other option is to use OMSA Live! to initiate the Reconfigure:
http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-71-live/OMSA71-CentOS6-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso

BTW ... do you have a T610 with an H700 or a T620 with an H710 (or did you upgrade a T610 to an H710 yourself)?

Thanks for that very prompt reply.

I tried adding the servername:1311 to IE but no success. I can see the IS logo from a remote machine so it is working but doesn't like OMSA for some reason.

I am going to try the other 2 options. Will let you know.

Yes you are right - it is a H700. I have become google-brained after searching for an answer to this problem.

You should not see the IIS logo connecting to servername:1311 from another system (or locally) ... it should give you the same OMSA login (OMSA runs on its own webserver and does not use IIS).

OMSA Live! will be your "for sure" ... I'm unsure if you will have the option in the BIOS utility for the PERC even after updating the firmware (can't hurt to update firmware anyway :)).

Let us know :)

That's interesting. I thought it used IIS. But maybe that's my clue.

As you say, if i connect to servername i see the IIS logo, but if i connect to servername:1311 I get the OMSA login screen. I have disabled the firewall for testing and have tried every variation I could to login but it always returns "no connection." The strange thing is that at the bottom of the OMSA login is "Manage Web Server" and that part accepts my credentials and logs me in. I can see the logs. So the only difference between the two screens is the Hostname / IP Address field. Am I not putting in that correctly? I have tried servername, servername:1311, 127.0.0.1:1311, localhost:1311 as well as prefixing with http:// and https://. Why would it accept one login and not the other ?

Thanks for your help - appreciate it.

I can log in just fine remotely using my domain admin account (select domain from computer/domain dropdown, if offered, and do NOT check the Active Directly box).  I think it may simply not work for connecting to the local system for the purposes of managing the system, it being an unsupported OS.

Well that solves that - thank you guys. I have already downloaded OMSA Live and will proceed that way.

Regards