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Chapter VIII. NVMe-oF
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Introduction
NVMe over Fabrics specification extends the benefits of NVMe to large fabrics, beyond the reach
and scalability of PCIe. NVMe enables deployments with hundreds or thousands of SSDs using
a network interconnect, such as RDMA over Ethernet. Thanks to an optimized protocol stack, an
end-to-end NVMe solution is expected to reduce access latency and improve performance,
particularly when paired with a low latency, high efficiency transport such as RDMA. This allows
applications to achieve fast storage response times, irrespective of whether the NVMe SSDs are
attached locally or accessed remotely across enterprise or datacenter networks.
1.1. Hardware Requirements
Supported Adapters
The following are the currently shipping Chelsio adapters that are compatible with Chelsio NVMe-
oF driver:
T62100-CR
T62100-LP-CR
T6425-CR
T6225-CR
T6225-LL-CR
T6225-OCP^
T6225-SO-CR^
T580-CR
T580-LP-CR
T540-CR
T540-BT
T520-CR
T520-LL-CR
T520-BT
^ Memory-free; 256 IPv4/128 IPv6 offload connections supported.
1.2. Software Requirements
Linux Requirements
Currently the NVMe-oF driver is available for the following versions:
RHEL 7.5, 3.10.0-862.el7
RHEL 7.5, 4.14.0-49.el7a.aarch64 (ARM64)
RHEL 7.4, 3.10.0-693.el7
SLES 15, 4.12.14-23-default