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Dell PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSD SFF P4500/P4600 User’s Guide

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Preparing to remove an NVMe PCIe SSD

  • WARNING: Both the Identify device and Prepare for removal LED patterns consist of a quick on/off blink of the green LED. When you initiate a prepare to remove operation, ensure that your NVMe PCIe SSD is no longer accessible by the system before you physically remove the NVMe PCIe SSD.
  • CAUTION: To prevent data loss, it is mandatory that you use the Prepare to Remove task before physically removing a device.
Use the Prepare to Remove task to safely remove an NVMe PCIe SSD from the system. This task causes the status LEDs on the device to blink. You can safely remove the device from the system under the following conditions after you use the Prepare to Remove task:

To perform the Prepare to Remove task:

  1. Ensure that there is no I/O traffic running on the PCIe SSD.
    1. On Linux platforms, unmount any file systems mounted on the device.
  2. Expand the Storage tree object to display the storage component objects.
  3. Expand the PCIe SSD SubSystem object.
  4. Expand the PCIe SSD Extender object, if applicable.
  5. Expand the Enclosure (Backplane) object.
  6. Select the Physical Devices object.
  7. Select the Prepare To Remove from the Available Tasks drop-down menu task.
  8. Click Execute. The following warning message is displayed: 
    “Warning: Are you sure you want to prepare the physical device for removal?”
  9. Select Prepare to Remove Physical Device to proceed or select Go Back to previous page to cancel the operation.

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