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SAN provisioning with NVMe

NVMe/FC is supported in SAN environment. NVMe/FC enables storage administrators to provision namespaces and subsystems and then map the namespaces to subsystems, similar to the way LUNs are provisioned and mapped to igroups for FC and iSCSI.

An NVMe namespace is a quantity of non-volatile memory that can be formatted into logical blocks. Namespaces are the equivalent of LUNs for FC and iSCSI protocols, and an NVMe subsystem is analogous to an igroup. An NVMe subsystem can be associated with initiators so that namespaces within the subsystem can be accessed by the associated initiators.

Although analogous in function, NVMe namespaces do not support all features supported by LUNs.

A license is required to support host-facing data access with NVMe. You can enable the license using the following command:

system license add -license-code NVMe_license_key

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