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NVMe/FC Host Configuration for Windows Server 2019 with ONTAP |
You can configure NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) on hosts running Windows Server 2019 using ONTAP as the target.
NVMe/FC is supported on ONTAP 9.7 or later for Windows Server 2019.
Windows Failover Cluster (WFC) is not supported with ONTAP NVMe/FC because ONTAP does not currently support persistent reservations with NVMe/FC.
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The external driver shipped by Broadcom for Windows NVMe/FC is not a true NVMe/FC driver but a translational SCSI ⇄ NVMe driver. This translational overhead does not necessarily impact performance, but it does negate the performance benefits of NVMe/FC. Thus, on Windows servers, NVMe/FC and FCP performance is the same, unlike on other operating systems such as Linux, where NVMe/FC performance is significantly better than that of FCP. |