8 Working With NVMe Storage Over Fibre Channel

Oracle Linux uses the Non-volatile Memory Express over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC) protocol to manage hosts and NVMe solid state storage devices over a fibre channel network. Oracle Linux running on machines that have NVMe/FC enabled host bus adapters (HBAs) can discover and connect to NVMe SSD devices attached to a fibre network. You can establish connectivity from hosts to these SSD devices through these adapters by using various nvme commands which are part of the nvme-cli package. nvme-cli is an NVMe storage CLI utility available on Oracle Linux.

This chapter provides instructions relating to configuring HBA devices such as certain Broadcom Emulex or Marvell Qlogic Fibre Channel adapters to connect to remote NVMe SSD devices over a Fibre channel network.