Reference Guide

Device write status

NAND SSDs have a nite number of spare sectors. If the device exhausts the available spare sectors, the NVMe PCIe SSD enters Write

Protect (Read-Only) mode. In Write Protect mode, you can only perform read operations to the device. The NVMe PCIe SSD self-

monitors for these limits, and software management applications notify you when you reach these limits.

Supported operating systems for NVMe PCIe SSD

NOTE: NVMe PCIe SSD hot swap is not supported in VMware ESXi 5.5 or while accessing the BIOS or Hll

conguration.

NOTE: For all operating system documents, see Dell.com/operatingsystemmanuals.

NOTE: NVMe PCIe SSD is not supported as a boot device in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11,

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, or VMware.

Only the following operating systems support the NVMe PCIe SSD devices:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64/EM64T) or later

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64/EM64T)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (x64/EM64T) or later

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 or later

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 or later

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 or later

• VMware ESXi 5.5

• VMware ESXi 6.0 or later

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