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NVMe-oF is available Inbox in VMware starting ESXi 7.0u1. NVMe over Fabrics, also known as NVMe-oF and Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics, is a protocol specification designed to connect hosts to storage across a network fabric using the NVMe protocol over RoCE. For earlier ESXi 6.5, a Mellanox version of iSER is available in the download section. ISER is available Inbox in VMware starting ESXi 6.7 and above.

Moreover, iSER brings the stability and benefits of the iSCSI protocol like security and high availability. NVIDIA® native iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) driver for ESXi uses the RDMA protocol suite to supply higher bandwidth for block storage transfers eliminating the TCP/IP processing overhead while preserving the compatibility with iSCSI protocol. NOTE: For VMware ESXi Server products and updates which are not listed above, please contact Support. NVIDIA® ConnectX® family of NICs deliver 10/25/40/50/100 and 200GbE network speeds allowing the highest port rate on ESXi today. NVIDIA® Native ESXi drivers enable industry-leading performance and efficiency as non-virtualized environments using hardware offloads such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) on VMware vSphere. ConnectX® Ethernet Driver for VMware® ESXi Server

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