Users Guide

Properties Description

NOTE: This eld is not applicable for NVMe Intel P4800x

devices.

Physical Device Tasks

The physical device tasks for PCIe SSD are as follows:

• Blinking And Unblinking

• Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD

• Exporting The Log

• Performing A Cryptographic Erase on An NVMe PCIe SSD

To perform a physical device task:

1 In the Server Administrator window, under the System tree, expand the Storage tree object to display the storage component

objects.

2 Expand the PCIe SSD Subsystem object

3 Expand the Enclosure (Backplane) object.

4 Select the Physical Devices object.

5 Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.

6 Click Execute.

Blinking And Unblinking A PCIe SSD

The Blink task allows you to nd a device within a system by blinking one of the LEDs on the device. You can use this task to locate a failed

device. Select Unblink to cancel the Blink task or to stop the LED on a physical device that is blinking indenitely.

Preparing To Remove A PCIe SSD

PCIe SSDs support orderly hot swap allowing you to add or remove a device without halting or rebooting the system in which the devices

are installed.

CAUTION

: The identify LED pattern (blink operation) is the same LED pattern as safe to remove. When you initiate a Prepare to

Remove operation, ensure that the PCIe SSD is no longer accessible by the system before physically removing the PCIe SSD.

CAUTION: To prevent data loss, it is mandatory that you use the Prepare to Remove task before physically removing a device.

NOTE: Orderly hot swap is only supported when the PCIe SSDs are installed in a supported system running a supported

operating system. To ensure that you have the correct conguration for your PCIe SSD, see the system-specic Owner's

Manual.

NOTE: The Prepare to Remove task for PCIe SSDs is supported on systems running the VMware vSphere (ESXi) 6.0 operating

system. However, this task is not supported on prior versions of VMware vSphere (ESXi) operating system.

Select the Prepare to Remove task to safely remove a PCIe SSD from the system. This task causes the status LEDs on the device to blink.

You can safely remove the device from the system under the following conditions after you initiate the Prepare to Remove task:

• The PCIe SSD is blinking the safe to remove LED pattern.

• The PCIe SSD is no longer accessible by the system.

PCI Express Solid-State Device Support