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Does NVMe Over Fabric require specific network switches?

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

Re: Does NVMe Over Fabric require specific network switches?

Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:40 pm
by anton (staff)
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

Re: Does NVMe Over Fabric require specific network switches?

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:45 pm
by frufru
Can I use NVMe-oF in 2 node scenario just with direct connect 2x10Gb iface?

Re: Does NVMe Over Fabric require specific network switches?

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 4:10 pm
by anton (staff)
Yes.
frufru wrote:Can I use NVMe-oF in 2 node scenario just with direct connect 2x10Gb iface?