In Windows-based systems, the NVMe PCIe SSDs have a controller entity
and a device entity. The controller entity is displayed under the
Storage controller menu in the
Device Manager.
Use the controller entity when installing or
updating the NVMe PCIe SSD driver. You can configure the NVMe PCIe
SSD for use on Windows from
.
On Linux-based systems, you can
configure the NVMe PCIe SSD 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 and so on).
Use OpenManage Server Administrator for managing and
performing NVMe PCIe SSD-related tasks. For more information, see
Configuring
and managing your NVMe PCIe SSD adapter
.
In VMware systems, you
can configure the NVMe PCIe SSD as datastore or for a passthrough
operation. You can use vSphere Client to configure the NVMe PCIe
SSD. Configuring PCIe devices as passthrough is not recommended due
to the following limitations:
-
You cannot take snapshots of the Virtual
Machine (VM).
-
Your VM cannot use failover features
such as VMotion and Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS).
-
You cannot hot-add any other device
to the VM such as a USB key. To add an additional device, first shut
down the VM.
Configuring NVMe PCIe SSD as passthrough is not
recommended outside of Dell-specific solutions. See the solution-specific
documentation at
Dell.com/support/manuals.