topic Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols in Network and Storage Protocols

Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

nabeel1988 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:15:16 GMT

Hi, i would like to know if netapp AFF A800 supports protocol RoCE and iWARP.

early reply would be really appreciated.

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

maffo — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:39:51 GMT

Hi @nabeel1988,

for what I know, AFF-A800 does not support those protocols for host conection.

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

nabeel1988 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:22:01 GMT

Thank you @maffo

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

nabeel1988 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:48:59 GMT

@maffo Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapter can be used to extend Netapp AFF A-800 support for RDMA protoclols such as RoCE?

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

Damien_Queen — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:48:04 GMT

RoCE & iWRAP not available in ONTAP. FC-NVMe available in ONTAP.

If you interested particularly in RoCE, you may be interested in E-Series EF570.

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

nabeel1988 — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 04:25:20 GMT

@Damien_Queen Thanks for the suggention, does E series netapp supports ONTAP RoCE 100gig bandwidth with mellanox NIC adapter?

Re: Netapp AFF A800 support RoCE and iWARP protocols

Damien_Queen — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 13:58:09 GMT

Again ONTAP does not support RoCE (at least for now in 9.4), therefore there are no NIC adapters for FAS/AFF systems supported RoCE.
ONTAP 9.4 does support NVMe over fabrics in the form of FC-NVMe, current FC maximum is 32Gbps.

E-Series storage systems are not compatible with components from FAS/AFF systems, including NIC's.

But E-Series do support RoCE protocol. Not sure about 100Gbps for RoCE.

Also, E-Series support 100Gbps with NVMe over InfiniBand with Mellanox cards. http://www.mellanox.com/blog/2017/11/nvme-fabrics-infiniband-worlds-fastest-storage-network/