Users Guide
PCI Express Solid-State Device Support
This section provides an overview of the Storage Management device management support for Peripheral Component Interconnect
Express (PCIe) Solid-State Drive (SSD) and its associated devices like the backplane and extender card.
In Storage Management, PCIe SSD appears under Storage in the tree view. Storage Management reports the PCIe SSD devices and its
various properties.
NOTE: Storage Management does not support RAID management or conguration on PCIe SSD sub systems.
NOTE: Storage Management enumerates around 150 secs for hot plug insertion or removal or prepares to remove operation on
systems running VMware Sphere ESXi. While all other operating systems take 10 secs.
NOTE: On SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.0, the NVMe device protocol version is enumerated as 0.0.
NOTE: Intel P4800x NVMe is not supported with SWRAID S140 controller.
Topics:
• PCIe SSD
• PCIe SSD Features
• PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties
• Physical Device Properties
• Physical Device Tasks
• PCIe SSD In Slot Card Tasks
• PCIe SSD Subsystem Health
PCIe SSD
Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) solid-state device (SSD) is a high-performance storage device designed for solutions
requiring low latency, high Input Output Operations per Second (IOPS), and enterprise class storage reliability and serviceability. The PCIe
SSD is designed based on Single Level Cell (SLC) NAND ash technology with a high-speed PCIe 2.0 compliant interface. The high-speed
PCIe 2.0 compliant interface helps improve performance for I/O bound solutions.
PCIe SSD Features
Following are the key features of PCIe SSD:
• Hot plug capability
• High-performance device
• Support for 2.5-inch HDD Form Factor
PCIe SSD Subsystem Properties
The PCIe SSD subsystem comprises of the following components:
• Backplane
• Extender Card
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