On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 09:34:39AM +0000, Ernesto Puerta via ceph-users wrote:
Hey Eugen,
AFAIK the Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway superseded the iSCSI one: it's actively maintained, more performant, scalable, secure and better integrated with the Ceph management & observability framework.
I'm curious: what's the target platform/use case for iSCSI that NVMe/TCP cannot fulfill?
As someone who is running pure spinning rust Ceph clusters, I assume the NVMe-oF gateway requires actual NVMe devices to be used for backing, given that the docs mention sending NMVe commands to targets, correct? Handing out iSCSI devices sounds useful as backing storage for VMs (and some can even boot off it). Kind regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison