NVMe over Fabrics

<p>NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the NVMe storage protocol — developed for direct-attached PCIe SSDs — over a network fabric. It preserves NVMe's low-latency, high-queue-depth characteristics while allowing storage to be disaggregated from compute and shared across multiple hosts.</p><p>NVMe-oF is increasingly important in AI data centres, where training jobs require high-throughput access to large datasets and checkpoints. By decoupling storage from GPU servers, NVMe-oF enables flexible capacity scaling, storage pooling and high-availability configurations. TCP transport (NVMe/TCP) offers broad compatibility; RDMA transport (NVMe/RoCE, NVMe/IB) provides the lowest latency for performance-critical workloads.</p>