- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction
- Change list
- NVDIMM-N Overview
- Hardware
- BIOS
- iDRAC NVDIMM-N Management
- Server Behavior with NVDIMM-Ns
- DIMM Configuration Changes
- Windows
- Linux
- ESXi
- General Errata
Starting from RHEL 7.6, ndctl utility is available natively.
NVDIMM-N modules that have FW 9324 are not visible in the OS as this firmware has label support. In other words, namespaces do not get enumerated automatically and using ndctl, namespaces have to be created first before mounting a file system and accessing them.
Run through the commands below as a super user to create /dev/pmem devices.
Run command below to create namespaces. This command if used as is by default creates /dev/pmem devices. In order to create namespaces in other modes, refer to the link https://www.mankier.com/1/ndctl-create-namespace
For more information on how to use ndctl utility refer to the users guide here https://docs.pmem.io/ndctl-users-guide