Performing a Cryptographic Erase on an NVMe PCIe SSD in Slot Card

Does my controller support this feature? See Supported features.
NOTE: After you hot plug an NVMe PCIe SSD, the NVMe PCIe SSD may take several seconds to be displayed on Storage Management.
CAUTION: Cryptographic Erase permanently erases all data present on the disk.
Performing a Cryptographic Erase on an NVMe PCIe SSD overwrites all blocks and results in permanent loss of all data on the NVMe PCIe SSD. During Cryptographic Erase, the host is unable to access the NVMe PCIe SSD.

The following error messages will be displayed based on the actions performed while performing Cryptographic erase

NOTE: The error messages will not be displayed in CLI mode.
  • If drive is mounted When you perform the 'Cryptographic Erase' operation, any data on the disk will be lost permanently. This device is currently mounted(/mnt/temp) and may still be in use. We recommend un-assigning them before continuing. Are you sure you want to continue?
NOTE: The mount path/drive letters is displayed in () brackets, in this case it is (/mnt/temp).
  • If any Raw IO in progress When you perform the 'Cryptographic Erase' operation, any data on the disk will be lost permanently. This device may still be in use. We recommend that you stop all applications accessing the device before continuing. Are you sure you want to continue?
NOTE:  If the system reboots or experiences a power loss during a Cryptographic Erase, the operation is canceled. You must reboot the system and restart the operation.
NOTE:  On systems running the VMware vSphere (ESXi) operating system, Storage Management performs only the Cryptographic Erase task and does not report the status of the task. If the Cryptographic Erase task does not function as expected for some NVMe devices, the status is not reported or displayed on Server Administrator.

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