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2.1 Support for NVMe hot-plug operations
The following table describes the respective version of VMware ESXi and Dell EMC Generations of
PowerEdge servers that support hot-plug operations on NVMe devices.
Supported NVMe hot-plug operations
Dell EMC
PowerEdge
generation
Dell EMC customized
VMware ESXi 6.x
Dell EMC customized
VMware ESXi 7.0 GA (A00
Build# 15843807) *
Dell EMC customized
VMware ESXi 7.0 (A02
Build# 16324942)
Supported
Unsupported
Supported
Unsupported
Supported
Intel 14G
• Hot
insertion
• Orderly
removal
• Surprise
removal
• Hot
insertion
• Orderly
removal
• Surprise
removal
• Hot insertion
• Surprise removal
• Orderly removal
AMD 14G
Naples
• Hot
insertion
• Orderly
removal
• Surprise
removal
• Hot
insertion
• Orderly
removal
• Surprise
removal
• Hot insertion
• Surprise removal
• Orderly removal
AMD 15G
Rome
• Hot
insertion**
• Orderly
removal**
• Surprise
removal**
• Hot
insertion
• Orderly
removal
• Surprise
removal
• Hot insertion
• Surprise removal
• Orderly removal
* Dell EMC does not support NVMe surprise removal for VMware ESXi 7.0 GA. For more information see,
VMware Knowledge Base article 78390 and VMware vSphere 7.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers Release
Notes. However, VMware have announced support for hot removal in VMware ESXi 7.0 GA. For more
information, see VMware Knowledge Base article 78297.
** Dell EMC PowerEdge servers with AMD Rome processors are required to have both interrupt remapping
and DMA Remapping disabled to support NVMe hot-plug on VMware vSphere and vSAN 6.x versions
explicitly. This restriction is lifted from VMware vSphere 7.0 onwards. For more information, see VMware
Knowledge Base article 74726.