Does NVMe Over Fabric require specific network switches?

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andrea.caldarone
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Fri Sep 20, 2019 1:49 pm

Hello,

NVME over Fabric is a great feature, I've not fully understood if to leverage the feature we need to have network switches that support this type of protocol or if the existing networks switches offer support for it.
I already know that RDMA-Enabled network card are needed.

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Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:40 pm

As long as you have switch playing nice with RoCEv2 you'll be good. So typical DCB configuration, buffer sizes etc.

https://jtpedersennew.azurewebsites.net ... figure-it/
andrea.caldarone wrote:Hello,

NVME over Fabric is a great feature, I've not fully understood if to leverage the feature we need to have network switches that support this type of protocol or if the existing networks switches offer support for it.
I already know that RDMA-Enabled network card are needed.

Thank you for your reply
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Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:45 pm

Can I use NVMe-oF in 2 node scenario just with direct connect 2x10Gb iface?
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Yes.
frufru wrote:Can I use NVMe-oF in 2 node scenario just with direct connect 2x10Gb iface?
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