Users Guide
Congure an NVMe PCIe SSD in dierent
operating systems
The NVMe PCIe SSD you ordered with your system is precongured and ready for use. The following describes how to access those
settings.
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 congured in Dell S140 RAID volumes, separate device entries are not shown. For more information, see the Dell
S140 documentation at Dell.com/support/manuals.
Use the controller entity when installing or updating the NVMe PCIe SSD driver. You can congure the NVMe PCIe SSD for use in
Windows from Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management Tool.
Linux
On Linux-based systems, you can congure 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 congure an NVMe PCIe SSDs as a datastore or for passthrough operation. However,
conguring 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 hotswap capability for other devices such as USB keys. To add another device, you must rst shut down the VM.
Conguring an NVMe PCIe SSD for passthrough operation is not recommended except as dened by Dell-specic solutions. See the
solution-specic documentation at Dell.com/support/manuals.
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