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lbcli Add NVMe Device

Adds an unmanaged NVMe SSD to be managed by a Lightbits node. The operation of adding a device may take up to a few minutes.

Sample Command

lbcli add nvme-device --serial-number=910005450RGN --node-uuid=fb9c7b76-22f2-4fcf-af1a-70933c1dd3fb

Note

A -J flag after lbcli indicates that the JWT is not stored in the lbcli configuration file.

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