Initiator; Hma - Chelsio Communications Terminator Series Installation And User Manual

Chapter VIII. NVMe-oF
5.2.

Initiator

i. Discover the target
[root@host~]# nvme discover -t rdma -a <target_ip> -s 4420
ii. Connect to target
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Connecting to a specific target:
[root@host~]# nvme connect -t rdma -a <target_ip> -s 4420 -n <target_name>
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Connecting to all targets configured on a portal
[root@host~]# nvme connect-all -t rdma -a <target_ip> -s 4420
iii. List the connected targets
[root@host~]# nvme list
iv. Format and mount the NVMe disks shown with the above command.
v. Disconnect from the target and unmount the disk:
[root@host~]# nvme disconnect -d <nvme_disk_name>
nvme_disk_name is the name of the device (e.g., nvme0n1) and not the device
Note
path.
5.3.

HMA

To use HMA, please ensure that Unified Wire is installed using the Unified Wire (Default)
configuration tuning option. Currently 256 IPv4/128 IPv6 connections are supported on T6 25G
SO adapters, provided
[root@host~]# nvme connect -i 1 -t rdma -a <target_ip> -s 4420 -n
<target_name>
Chelsio Unified Wire for Linux
I/O queues is set to 1 while logging into the target.
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