Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD User’s Guide
- NVMe PCIe SSD overview
- Supported operating systems
- Troubleshooting
- NVMe PCIe SSD carrier LED indicators
- Ungraceful system shutdown or power loss
- General errors
- NVMe drive properties intermittently not available in iDRAC
- NVMe PCIe SSD is not listed in the operating system
- I/O device error on write to NVMe PCIe SSD
- NVMe PCIe SSD performance measurement not optimal
- System becomes unresponsive when NVMe PCIe U.2 2.5-inch SSD is surprise removed
- System becomes unresponsive or fails when NVMe PCIe SSD is inserted
- Related documentation
- Getting help
Supported operating systems
The NVMe PCIe SSD you ordered with your system is preconfigured and ready for use. This chapter explains how you can view
the configuration settings of your NVMe PCIe SSD depending on the operating system you are using.
Windows
In Windows-based systems, NVMe PCIe SSD devices have a controller entity and a device entity. The controller entity is
displayed under the Storage controller menu in the Device Manager.
NOTE: When configured in Dell S140 RAID volumes, separate device entries are not shown. For more information, see the
Dell S140 documentation at www.dell.com/manuals.
Use the controller entity when installing or updating the NVMe PCIe SSD driver. You can configure the NVMe PCIe SSD for use
in Windows from Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management Tool.
Linux
On Linux-based systems, you can configure NVMe PCIe SSDs from the partitioning tool by specifying or selecting the device
name. The device name for NVMe PCIe SSDs is /dev/nvmeXn1, where X is the number corresponding to each NVMe PCIe
SSD in the system. For example:
/dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme1n1
/dev/nvme2n1
Use OpenManage Server Administrator for managing and performing NVMe PCIe SSD-related tasks.
VMware
In VMware systems, you can use vSphere Client to configure an NVMe PCIe SSDs as a datastore or for passthrough operation.
However, configuring an NVMe PCIe SSD for passthrough operation is not recommended due to the following limitations:
● Inability to take snapshots of the Virtual Machine (VM).
● VM is no longer able to use fail over features such as VMotion and Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS).
● Loss of hot swap capability for other devices such as USB drives. To add another device, you must first shut down the VM.
Configuring an NVMe PCIe SSD for passthrough operation is not recommended except as defined by Dell-specific solutions.
See the solution-specific documentation at www.dell.com/manuals.
2
Supported operating systems 7