Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC NVDIMM-N Persistent Memory User Guide
- 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
Figure 25. Device Manager
All NVDIMM-N devices are controlled by the nvdimm.sys driver, while the logical disks are controlled by the pmem.sys driver.
Both types of device objects are created by scmbus.sys, the bus driver for persistent memory. This bus driver object can be
found in Device Manager under "System Devices"
New features in Windows Server 2019 Label support and
Namespace management
With Windows Server 2019, OS provides support for Label and Namespace management.
When NVDIMM-N modules are exposed to the OS first time or after factory-reset/sanitize operation, namespaces are not
enumerated automatically.
Users need to create namespaces before using them as storage devices. User can run the commands below to manage
namespaces on NVDIMM-N.
Figure 26. Available PMEM PowerShell Cmdlets
Examples:
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