Is RDMA/RoCE with WinOF and Windows 10 possible? How about from a Hyper-V Linux box on that same system?

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Is RDMA/RoCE with WinOF and Windows 10 possible?

How about from a Hyper-V Linux box on that same system?

I surmise that it would have to be EN, rather than IB.

There is older documentation out on the web that says no, but there are other indications that improvements have been made.

So is this possible yet? Or should I abandon the thought for now?

ConnectX-5 card.

Thanks

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Hello Andrew,

Many thanks for posting your question on the Mellanox Community.

Currently RDMA is only supported on Windows 10 Pro for Workstations. The regular Windows 10 Pro does not have that capability and will also not inherit this even when running on a Hyper-V hypervisor.

Many thanks,

~Mellanox Technical Support

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​Looks like the windows 10 enterprise is also included on that list (per microsoft) but I haven’t attempted it. Should be an interesting experiment.

Thanks much!

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what is the client application programming APIs ? Is it Windows Network Direct SPI as following link:NetworkDirect/docs at master · microsoft/NetworkDirect · GitHub