NVMe over Fibre Channel restrictions

Before using NVMe over Fibre Channel, review the controller, host, and recovery restrictions.

Verify your configuration

Verify your configuration, using the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool.

About the hardware

NVMe over Fibre Channel can be configured for the EF300, EF600, EF570, and E5700 controllers. The controllers must have the quad 32GB host port.

Restrictions

The following restrictions are in effect for the 11.60 release. See the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool for a complete list of requirements.

Controller restrictions

This protocol can be used only for EF300, EF600, EF570, or E5700 controller with a minimum of 32 GB of physical memory. If the minimum memory requirements for the controllers are not met during start of day operations, a message is displayed that helps you diagnose the problem.
No simplex (single-controller) configurations are supported.
The only supported host interface card (HIC) is the quad 32GB Fibre Channel HIC.

Host, host protocol, and host operating system restrictions

The host must be running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 operating system. See the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool for a complete list of requirements.
For a list of supported host channel adapters see the NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool .

Storage and disaster recovery restrictions

Asynchronous and synchronous mirroring are not supported.
Thin provisioning (the creation of thin volumes) is not supported.