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F.3 Status Indications
An LED indicator on the drive carrier shows the RAID status of the drive.
Drive Carrier Status LED Indicator
Status
State (red)
Normal function
Off
Locating
4 Hz blink
Fault
Solid on
Rebuilding
1 Hz Blink
IBPI SFF 8489 Defined Status LED States
F.4 Hot Swap Drives
Intel VMD enables hot-plug and hot-unplug for NVMe SSDs, whether from Intel or other
manufacturers. Under vSphere ESXi, several steps are necessary to avoid potential stability
issues. See the information at link [1] below.
Hot-unplug
1. Prevent devices from being re-detected during rescan:
esxcli storage core claiming autoclaim --enabled=false
2. Unmount the VMFS volumes on the device. Check [2] for details.
3. Detach the device. Check [3] for details.
4. Physically remove the device.
Hot-plug
•
Physically install the device.
ESXi will automatically discover NVMe SSDs, but a manual scan may be required in some
cases.
Related Information Links
[1]
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151404
[2]
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/
GUID-1B56EF97-F60E-4F21-82A7-8F2A7294604D.html
[3]
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc/