Linux Proxy with NVMe over TCP

[SkyDiver79]

Hello,
Does anyone have any experience with Linux backup proxies and Direct SAN Access via NVMe over TCP?
In the documentation about Direct SAN Access I can't find anything about NVMe over Fabric.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

[PetrM]

Hello,

A direct connection to a storage system can be established over FC, FCOE, iSCSI. As far as I understand, NVMe is just another protocol that is not supported for Direct SAN mode.

Thanks!

[SkyDiver79]

Can you declare, why is NVMe over Fabric not supported? NVMeoF is native supported since Kernel 3.1 like iSCSI.
Is there an technical Issue or only a Supporting Issue?

[segfault]

NVMe over FC is not supported. NVMe/TCP is even newer than that and probably even further away from being supported. (Bigger trick is to get the underlying storage to make a snapshot and then present the namespace to the host with a unique path so that multiple jobs can run against the same source namespace at the same time. )

See the the thread started 3 years ago at vmware-vsphere-f24/nvme-of-support-for- ... 68346.html for the backstory.

We were all hoping it would be supported in v12 but we had no such luck.

[foggy]

NVMe-oF support is on our priority list, you can review this related discussion for some context. Thanks!