Users Guide

Block Mode................................................................................................................................................................... 36
DAX Mode..................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Storage Spaces Support ...........................................................................................................................................37
Operational and Diagnostics Logging information............................................................................................... 37
Storage Class Memory in Windows Server 2019....................................................................................................... 37
NVDIMM-N FW Requirement...................................................................................................................................37
Driver Architecture Overview...................................................................................................................................37
New features in Windows Server 2019 Label support and Namespace management............................... 38
PowerShell Cmdlets....................................................................................................................................................40
NVDIMM-N Interleaving............................................................................................................................................ 40
Configuring NVDIMM-N for Hyper-V Virtual Machines..................................................................................... 41
NVDIMM-N RO Behavior........................................................................................................................................... 41
Windows Errata.................................................................................................................................................................. 41
Chapter 10: Linux........................................................................................................................ 43
Identify and Configure PMEM —Persistent Memory Device................................................................................ 43
Installation........................................................................................................................................................................... 44
Verify Existing Filesystem............................................................................................................................................... 44
Read-Only Mode NVDIMM-N........................................................................................................................................ 44
Interleave.............................................................................................................................................................................44
Interleave Setup...........................................................................................................................................................44
Interleave Verification................................................................................................................................................ 45
Read Only Mode NVDIMM-N................................................................................................................................... 45
Management Utility ......................................................................................................................................................... 46
ndctl................................................................................................................................................................................46
mdadm............................................................................................................................................................................47
RHEL 7.6 features............................................................................................................................................................. 47
Linux Errata.........................................................................................................................................................................48
Chapter 11: ESXi.......................................................................................................................... 49
Set up...................................................................................................................................................................................49
Storage................................................................................................................................................................................ 49
Namespaces................................................................................................................................................................. 50
Interleave sets..............................................................................................................................................................50
Datastore........................................................................................................................................................................51
Supported Guest OSes with NVDIMM support.........................................................................................................52
Overall Health Status ...................................................................................................................................................... 52
Operational and Diagnostics Logging information.....................................................................................................52
Outdated firmware......................................................................................................................................................53
NVDIMM-N Errors............................................................................................................................................................ 53
ESXi Errata..........................................................................................................................................................................54
Chapter 12: General Errata.......................................................................................................... 55
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