NVMeoF Resources

NVMeoF vSphere 8

vVols NVMeoF

With vSphere 8, we announced support for vVols with NVMeoF FC. Working to keep vVols on the leading edge of storage technology, adding NVMe support allows customers to get the benefits of both vVols granular management and NVMeoF Performance.

For more details, see the announcement article here.

vSphere 8 NVMeoF Enhancements

Support for 256 Namespace and 4k paths.
Extend reservation Support for NVMe device
Auto-discovery of NVMe Discovery Service support in ESXi

More in-depth technical details are available here.

Feature support Details

Added Support:

vVols
Clustered VMDK (NVMe reservation)
Boot with SAN (FC only)

Unsupported:

Pt-RDM and virtual-RDM
VAAI Plugins (nothing identified so far)
NVMe-oF namespace for core-dump (not sure about this)
3^rd party plugin support (with HPP)
XCOPY support
Scale differences (with 8.0, we would get 256 NS and 2k paths whereas SCSI is currently at 1K LUNs and 4K paths)
Metro cluster support
SRM support
E2E NVMe

NVMeoF Support added in vSphere 7

What's New in vSphere 7 Core Storage

With the release of vSphere 7, we added support for NVMe over Fabrics or NVMeoF. VMware continues to enhance connectivity with external storage. As NVMe devices and arrays continue to become the norm, the need to use the NVMe protocol for connectivity was an obvious progression. With the initial release, we are support FC and RoCE v2. (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)

See the announcement and details here: What's New in vSphere 7 Core Storage | VMware

Currently unsupported features with NVMeoF

Pt-RDM and virtual-RDM
Shared VMDK (NVMe reservation)
vVols
VAAI Plugins (nothing identified so far)
NVMe-oF namespace for core-dump (not sure about this)
3^rd party plugin support (with HPP)
XCOPY support
Scale differences (with 8.0, we would get 256 NS and 2k paths whereas SCSI is currently at 1K LUNs and 4K paths)
Metro cluster support
SRM support
E2E NVMe
Boot with SAN