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3 NVMe Hot-Plug on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers running VMware vSphere or vSAN | Technical white paper |
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience and Scope .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Terminology ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
1.3 NVMe Command-Line Interface ......................................................................................................................... 5
2 Use cases for NVMe and hot-plug support on VMware ESXi ...................................................................................... 6
2.1 Support for NVMe hot-plug operations ............................................................................................................... 7
3 Support for NVMe hot-plug on VMware vSphere 6.x and VMware vSAN 6.x ............................................................. 8
3.1 Perform orderly removal of an NVMe device configured as a VMFS Datastore ................................................ 8
3.2 Perform orderly removal of an NVMe device configured as an RDM disk ......................................................... 9
3.3 Perform orderly removal of an NVMe device on a VSAN cluster ..................................................................... 10
3.4 Perform orderly removal of an NVMe device configured as a host cache device ............................................ 10
3.5 Perform orderly removal of an NVMe device through Dell EMC iDRAC Service Module (iSM) ...................... 11
4 LED management of NVMe devices in VMware ESXi ............................................................................................... 12
5 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 13
6 References ................................................................................................................................................................. 14