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Starting the NVMe/FC service for an SVM

Beginning with ONTAP 9.5, the FC-NVMe protocol is supported. Before you can use the FC-NVMe protocol on your storage virtual machine (SVM), you must start the FC-NVMe service on the SVM.

Before you begin

Beginning with ONTAP 9.5, NVMe is allowed by default.

  1. Change the privilege setting to advanced: set -privilege advanced
  2. Verify that NVMe is allowed as a protocol: vserver nvme show
  3. Create the NVMe protocol service:vserver nvme create
  4. Start the NVMe protocol service on the SVM: vserver nvme modify -status -admin up