Users Guide

1 Insert the media containing the latest driver that you downloaded from Dell.com/support/drivers.
2 Double-click the executable and follow the on-screen instructions to install the NVMe PCIe SSD driver using DUP.
NOTE: Dell provides the DUP to update drivers on systems running 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012
R2, and Windows Server 2016 operating systems. DUP is an executable application that updates drivers for specic devices.
DUP supports command line interface and silent execution. For more information, see the driver release notes at Dell.com/
support/drivers .
When DUPs are not used to upgrade the driver, follow the instructions below:
1 Insert the media containing the latest driver that you downloaded in Downloading NVMe PCIe SSD drivers.
2
Click Start > Control Panel > System and Security.
3 Select Device Manager under the System option.
The Device Manager screen is displayed.
4 Double-click the entry to expand the Storage controllers. Alternatively, you can click the plus symbol next to the Storage controllers.
For example, a 3.2 TB NVMe PCIe SSD device is displayed as Dell Express Flash NVMe PM1725 3.2TB.
NOTE: If there is no NVMe PCIe SSD driver installed, the NVMe PCIe device is listed under the Other devices option. In
this case, the NVMe PCIe device is displayed as PCIe device.
5 Double-click the NVMe PCIe device for which you want to install or update the driver.
6 Click the Driver tab, and click Update Driver.
The Update Device Driver screen is displayed.
7 Select Browse my computer for driver software.
8 Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
9 Select Have Disk.
10 Follow the steps in the wizard, and browse to the location of the driver les.
11 Select the INF le from the driver media.
12 Click OK to exit the wizard.
13 Click Next.
NOTE
: If there is more than one NVMe PCIe SSD in the system, repeat steps 4–13 for all remaining devices in the
system.
14 Restart the system for the changes to take eect.
NOTE
: Dell does not recommend loading the drivers from Windows Server 2012 R2 or other older Windows versions in
Windows Server 2016.
Installing or upgrading NVMe PCIe SSD driver for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
NOTE
: For a complete list of supported operating systems, see Supported operating systems for NVMe PCIe SSD .
NOTE: Use the procedures in this section to install or upgrade the driver for Linux. The driver is updated frequently. To ensure
that you have the current version of the driver, download the latest Linux driver from Dell.com/support. For more information,
see Downloading NVMe PCIe SSD drivers.
NOTE: Starting with RHEL 7.2 and SLES 12 SP1, there is a fully supported in-box driver. Earlier operating systems that may have
an in-box driver are not supported. Dell recommends that you download the latest drivers from Dell.com/support. For more
information, see Downloading NVMe PCIe SSD drivers.
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