On 4/3/2017 6:17 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net> 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. To add a data point, I built a stock CentOS 7.3 VM in ESXi 6.5 with hardware version 13 to include NVMe support. The VM boots and runs great on the virtual NVMe controller. Jack