Protocol
NVMe over Fabrics
NVMe-oF
NVMe over Fabrics extends NVMe queues across RDMA, TCP, or Fibre Channel. Capsules map submission/completion queue entries over the fabric; discovery and connect establish controllers. It enables disaggregated SSD pools for AI and cloud storage.
Layers
Tags
storagefabricsqueuescapsules
Sources
- NVM Express NVMe over Fabrics spec
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