NAME¶

nvme - the NVMe storage command line interface utility (nvme-cli)

SYNOPSIS¶

built-in plugin:

nvme <command> <device> [<args>]

extension plugins:

nvme <plugin> <command> <device> [<args>]

DESCRIPTION¶

NVM-Express is a fast, scalable host controller interface designed to address the needs for not only PCI Express based solid state drives, but also NVMe-oF(over fabrics).

This nvme program is a user space utility to provide standards compliant tooling for NVM-Express drives. It was made specifically for Linux as it relies on the IOCTLs defined by the mainline kernel driver.

NVME COMMANDS¶

The utility has sub-commands for all admin and io commands defined in the specification and for displaying controller registers. There is also an option to submit completely arbitrary commands. For a list of commands available, run "nvme help".

NVME CLI SUB-COMMANDS¶

FURTHER DOCUMENTATION¶

See the freely available references on the Official NVM-Express Site[1].

AUTHORS¶

This is written and maintained by Keith Busch[2].

REPORTING BUGS¶

Patches and issues may be submitted to the official repository at https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli or the Linux NVMe mailing list linux-nvme[3]

NVME¶

Part of the nvme suite

NOTES¶

1.

Official NVM-Express Site

2.

Keith Busch

3.

linux-nvme