We have two HP Proliant servers that we installed ESXi 6.5 on a regular 2.5" hard drive. After that was all done, we added an additional 3 hard drives to each server for internal storage however when we log into ESXi client, we're not able to detect the new hard drives. Is there a driver or something I need to do to the additional drives before I am able to detect them in ESXi. The server does support hot swapping so I've tried pulling out the drives and putting them back in but that doesn't do anything. When I try to do a rescan, it doesn't detect the additional hard drives.
This is particularly challenging since the server is off site at one of our other branches so it's difficult to troubleshoot with anybody on site since most of them are not overly technical. I've asked them to ship the hard drives back to my location so I can do some testing and I have another server identical to the two in our remote facility so I'll be able to go through troubleshooting steps. I figured I'd come to these forums for advice and before you ask, yes I am fairly new to the VMware world so my apologies if my explanations are not overly detailed.
Here are the specs for the server if needed:
HP ProLiant DL160 G6
2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz
144GB RAM