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NVMe-oF

Definition

NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) extends the NVMe storage protocol across a network fabric, enabling remote access to NVMe storage with near-local-disk performance. Supported transports include RDMA (InfiniBand or RoCE), Fibre Channel (FC-NVMe), and TCP (NVMe/TCP). NVMe-oF enables disaggregated storage architectures where compute and storage scale independently while maintaining sub-100-microsecond access latencies across the network.

Daniel Kovacs
Written by
Daniel Kovacs
Updated Feb 11, 2026

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