Provisioning NVMe/TCP for Windows

FSx for ONTAP supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express over TCP (NVMe/TCP) block storage protocol for Windows. With NVMe/TCP, you use the ONTAP CLI to provision namespaces and subsystems and then map the namespaces to subsystems, similar to the way LUNs are provisioned and mapped to initiator groups (igroups) for iSCSI. The NVMe/TCP protocol is available on second-generation file systems that have 6 or fewer high-availability (HA) pairs..

To provision NVMe/TCP on a Windows host, you will need to download an initiator from your vendor of choice, and follow their instructions for installing and provisioning it.