[CentOS] M.2 PCI-E card

[Pete Biggs]

On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 20:17 -0500, 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.
> 

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.