ipxe boot from vSAN: iSCSI only or nvme-over-fabric?

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Labtester
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Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:22 pm

Designing a cluster of workstations intended to boot from shared storage on a zfs pool via vSAN. It appears iSCSI is readily supported as both an initiator and target, but I can't find the same information for the higher performing nvme-of protocol (which Starwind also supports, but the initiator seems to require an already-booted windows system.) Does anyone have any experience with this?

Thank you,

LT.
yaroslav (staff)
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Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:45 pm

iPXE boot works only for iSCSI now.
NVMe-oF is going to be beta soon. Stay tuned.
ChazJohns
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Fri Jan 10, 2025 2:05 pm

Is the beta version released yet?
yaroslav (staff)
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Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:26 pm

No. Please keep an eye on the release notes.
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