On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 20:17 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Alice Wonder <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > I need a low profile PCI-E card that allows for up to 2 M.2 SSD
> > drives that is known to work with the stock kernel in CentOS 7.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend one?
>
> I can't recommend a specific one, but any adapter card should work.
> However, note that M.2 is not a single "thing" to the computer; the
> drive interface can be SATA, PCI-E AHCI, or PCI-E NVMe. The first two
> would look the same as a traditional SATA device to the OS, so should be
> fine. The third is a different interface; I haven't looked to see if
> the CentOS 7 kernel supports NVMe (I suspect it does, but you should
> check before buying an NVMe device). I know that NVMe works fine with
> recent Fedora.
>
Not perhaps absolutely definitive, but the Dell configurator allows you
to specify RHEL7.2 with the Dell branded NVMe PCIe M.2 drives - it
doesn't allow the Intel PCIe NVMe SSD cards though. It's happy with
non-NVMe M.2 drives.
P.
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