Hi,

I have a glance through OMIVV user guide and I don't think it can do RAID controller configuration. I would suggest to install and use OMSA: https://dell.to/3d06Thk;

I've checked that H700 has online capacity expansion capability page 31: https://dell.to/3zIH6Ul.

After you have access to OMSA, you can do OCE. Here a reference: https://dell.to/3xEb4Hl

Thanks for that Joey

Issue is that we have not been able to get a connection from the WIndows VM using OMSA.

We enter the IP address of the ESXi box and the credentials for the root account and we get "Verifying Credentials" for 20 seconds or so and then "Login Failed - Connection Timeout". It's almost as if the server side software was not responding. Have checked the credentials and they are correct. Is there any other way of testing the connection to make sure the server is listening?

We're getting very close to backing up all the VMs externally and trashing the current RAID-5 array just to add two drives. In over 40 years of IT I have never worked on a system that makes it so hard to add a couple of disks.

Rgds

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Hi Nigel,

Try installing accessing ESXi host OMSA from outside the system with the OMSA software installed.

Here's an old post: Solved: OMSA in a ESXi host - Dell Community