VMware recently added NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) as a storage network protocol option in vSphere 7.0. The fact that the fastest shared storage solution is now able to be used by the world’s most popular virtualization software is a game changer, opening a whole new set of use cases for a virtualized data center. This also means that there are now bare-metal applications capable of running on NVMe-oF enabled virtual machines (VMs) on vSphere, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), in-memory databases, high-performance computing (HPC), high-frequency trading (HFT), online transaction processing (OLTP), as well as any other application that requires extremely low latency and high-capa
