How to Install SSD M.2 NVMW for PowerEdge T330

[veuillez]

Hi Guys,

I want to change my drive from HDD SAS to SSD M.2 NVME, i have Samsung 970 Evo Plus for instalation OS on my server, but my server won't to booting with my ssd, i installled windows server 2019 std from another pc and i put it back to server, i hope u can solve this thanks

[DELL-Joey C]

Hi,

I don't think T330 would be able to support M.2 NVME. Is the M.2 NVME a SAS drive? Do you have a picture of it? How do you do the connections?

Does the server BIOS able to detect it?

[veuillez]

I'm using this adapter for ssd m.2 nvme, do u have sollution to booting os from pcie? I already to deploy os from lifecycle and cannot to booting from this

[DELL-Joey C · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I don't think T330 supports boot from PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD. 

Here maybe you can try, set the BIOS to UEFI. And in the BIOS, set the SATA mode to AHCI. If it's not detected, the server should not be able to support it. 

[veuillez]

Hi Everyone,

I just bought SSD Samsung 970 Evo Plus and M.2 NVME to PCIE 3.0 Adapter, I successfully to install windows server 2019 on my sad m.2 nvme, but I can't booting with my m.2 ssd nvme on pcie 3.0 adapter, I want to ask anybody can booting from pcie adapter for operating system on PowerEdge T330? maybe u can help me to solve this problem thanks

[wguo]

The solution would be to use a dedicated USB flash drive and set as the first boot option, use its grub booting to redirect to nvme drive.
1. Install Linux into this USB flash drive.
2. install os into your nvme SSD(I use Asus hyper PCIe nvme adapter, which should also work for your case )
    you can use disk copy software or other tooling to install os in nvme drive.
3. change the default grub entry on the USB drive to nvme
I bought a mini-sized USB drive to attach to PowerEdge server.

The key point is to use USB flash drive's grub configuration to redirect to PCIe-nvme SSD installed OS.