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Figure 3-3. Retrieving SSD Information
5.
The final step is to hot insert a replacement SSD. The replacement SSD can simply be
hot inserted. After the OS discovers the newly inserted SSD, it’s ready for configuration
and access.
Windows Environment
Examples listed here were done under Windows Server 2016. Command output in this section
maybe abbreviated for easier reading. Additional notes are added with marking “
”.
Windows generally reports NVMe SSD events associated with a disk or hard disk number. In
the procedure below, a method is shown to correlate an NVMe SSD’s slot number in JBOF
to its disk number and to prepare the target SSD for hot removal.
1. Begin by retrieving the target NVMe SSD information, as shown below. From Start
(Right Click)\Disk Management, all the installed NVMe SSD information may be
obtained.
