Users Guide

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Emulex NVMe over Fibre Channel User Guide
Chapter 4: Enabling and Configuring NVMe over FC on
Windows
This chapter provides instructions for the following tasks:
 Enabling and configuring NVMe over FC on a Windows initiator using the OneCommand Manager GUI or the
OneCommand Manager CLI
 Monitoring NVMe targets using the OneCommand Manager CLI
NOTE: Windows initiator systems must connect to target devices that are configured for NVMe.
4.1 Enabling and Configuring NVMe over FC on an Initiator
You can configure NVMe driver parameters using the OneCommand Manager GUI or the OneCommand Manager CLI.
 Refer to the Emulex OneCommand Manager Application for LightPulse Adapters User Guide for detailed information on
starting the OneCommand Manager GUI and navigating to the Driver Parameters tab.
 Refer to the Emulex OneCommand Manager Command Line Interface for LightPulse Adapters User Guide for detailed
information on using the SetDriverParam command.
The following table shows the NVMe driver parameters and supplements the information in Table 1 of the Emulex Drivers
for Windows for LightPulse Adapters User Guide, which provides specific information about driver parameters.
Parameter Definitions
Activation
Requirement
Notes
EnableNVMe EnableNVMe enables or disables driver NVMe over
FC functionality.
 0 = Disable NVMe
 1 = Enable NVMe
Value: 0 or 1
Default = 0
Reboot Enabling NVME causes the driver to allocate
more memory resources to support NVMe
over FC. It also activates NVMe discovery in
addition to FCP discovery, which allows the
driver to discover both FCP targets and
NVMe over FC targets. The driver runs in
either FCP mode or in FCP+NVMe mode.
NVMe-only mode is not supported.
NumNVMENode NumNVMENode specifies the maximum number of
NVMe nodes supported by the driver. An NVMe
node is either an NVMe discovery service or an
NVMe subsystem.
Value: 8 to 512 (decimal) or 0x8 to 0x200
(hexadecimal)
Default = 16
Reboot
NumNVMENS NumNVMENS specifies the maximum number of
NVMe namespaces supported by the driver within
an NVMe subsystem.
Value: 8 to 255 (decimal) or 0x8 to 0xFF
(hexadecimal)
Default = 8
Reboot