I am attempting to bring a retired R720 back to life for my VMWare test environment.  I had issues with the H310 causing the server to not boot into ESXi so I removed it and the raided hard drives.  I just want to toss an old 3TB drive into it so I can create a datastore for my test guest VMs.

How do I get this server to recognize this hard drive?  Does it care that I just ripped the PERC card out or what am I missing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!