ROSE: NVMe over TCP

[@RubenRifkin]

You Guys at Mikrotik are Legends! Archlinux FTW!

[@scheimong]

Man this stuff is wild. I probably won't be using this tech anytime soon, but it's good to know that it exists.

[@39zack]

Reminds me of iscsi

[@michalpolrolniczak]

but without portals, targets, funky id's

[@paulsimon1494]

@@michalpolrolniczak and without server authentication

[@handrzej]

😂 3:03 😂😂😂 3:08

[@MladenMarinov]

Wow! Just a day before I was thinking that will be quite useful if you guys do a device that works like NVME storage cluster. Seems the fortune hears my thoughts, even not so clearly 🙂 but still in the right direction! Some implementations are still unclear but its a development! Imagine if we have a high power eficent Mikrotik 1U module with 8x4TB storage that can be used for NAS/SAN with 10G or 100G!

[@drumaddict89]

please make a video on MLAG basic setup, configuration and MLAG LACP and failover when one of the MLAG peers goes down!

[@ДжониКейжд-э2б]

good question, Interesed too

[@Darkk6969]

That would be a cool video to watch.

[@MathiasWesterlund]

While we use mlag in prod and know how to do it now. I agree on this. Because the documentation is very unclear and first time was very messy.

[@drumaddict89]

@@MathiasWesterlund without hickups and downtimes when one mlag node goes down? which rOS version? according to forum posts MLAG is utterly useless at the moment - could be, everyone misconfiguring it?

[@MathiasWesterlund]

@drumaddict89 latest rOS7 works pretty well for us. The CRS5xx series is made for more mlag stability as it has full support for it in HW chip. Main thing is treating an mlag enabled switch pair as a raw L2 device and not mix in L3. We use CRS518 and 520 for L2 density at 25/100GbE with MLAG pairs and then route in CCR2116 and CCR2216 Making sure we DO NOT mix in L3 on any mlag device and instead redundant pathing is done by BGP/ospf for L3 devices.

[@Wirelessinfopuntbe]

Hello, when will you make work of two-way authentication on the Mikrotik devices. This would be a great asset. Regards Jean-Pierre

[@minigpracing3068]

This is very interesting. What would it take to make a small and inexpensive device that held 4 nvme drives in a pool, and also had SMB and NFS and iSCSI, a real NAS product? For lab situations, a 4 to 8tb raw pool would be more than enough, my lab target was around 3 to 4tb useable space for use with vSphere and XCP-NG, maybe Nutanix later. And that said, I don't think any of my current routers have an nvme slot, I haven't opened my CRS326-24+2Q+RM but I don't remember seeing nvme in the specs.

[@oidaradar]

fwiw, latest greatest kernel & nvme-cli have also tls encryption support. took a while to bash out all the small bugs. anyway, looking forward to see this feature also pop up here :)

[@lukasmoravec2489]

Hi, would be there a possibility to do some native VPN guide videos (like IKEv2 with certificates and without)? It would be great!

[@vitaliypro8441]

I don’t get it. What’s is this for again?

[@strob5657]

SAN I suppose??

[@strob5657]

Or any block storage interface

[@MakeKasprzak]

Awesome!

[@komismo]

Sam Worthington working on mikrotik?

[@danielpetersen2147]

No, it's Sam Vorthingčak

[@Tad3j]

The only thing now is to create physical network drives and device where you can put it in. Then make it dedicated for NAS, network drive, etc via SMB, NAT, etc. :D

[@mbovenka]

Exactly. This is NAS (or actually, SAN) functionality. I don't want it anywhere near my routers and switches. More things to break or to attack.

[@apruszko]

Could it be a nfs replacement? My imagination is degradated and I can't see utilisation. Could you inspire?! This exclusive access hide me everything. But it is nice that the Mikrotik improves own products. 😊

[@Alan.livingston]

You could use it for mounting disks to virtual machines or any of the other tasks you would normally use other block storage protocols like iSCSI.

[@apruszko]

I expect this usage, but if you have one nvme drive in your router you can run only one vm this way, I mean it is 1 to 1 connection not: one vm to part of space of this nvme, next vm to next part of the space of the same nvme, ...

[@Aviduduskar]

Very cool!

[@Perko9898]

As a System admin and with only MTCNA, it's hard for me to figure out what is the use case for this. Can anyone give me some more use cases that will be useful for me in my practice?

[@kk7297]

store logs on remote proper storage device? Maybe storage for docker container (adguard or file/media share). maybe tcpdump an interface :)

[@msys3367]

Until they release some kind of NAS hardware I really don’t know

[@TheOfficialReapsZ]

That’s pretty Cool! Wut..Winbox is so ugly now :S

[@ONvNO]

UDP

[@f4akq]

Can anyone provide a practical use case for that feature in RouterOS? I understand the feature, but I don’t see where it would be helpful