The Fibre Channel feature is available to Enterprise-licensed High Availability (HA) and non-HA systems. Any Enterprise system, equipped with the required fibre channel hardware can implement this feature.

This article provides instructions for VMware VCenter ESXi. If you are using a different platform for your block share backups, use the documentation for that platform for alternative instructions for the ESXi process documented in this tutorial. .

When setting up iSCSI fibre channel for the first time:

TrueNAS Enterprise

Fibre Channel is a TrueNAS Enterprise feature. Only TrueNAS systems licensed for Fibre Channel show iSCSI Fibre Channel screens and settings found by going to Sharing > Block Shares (iSCSI).

Enterprise systems with fibre channel hardware can access fibre channel settings and screens through various iSCSI wizard and share screens.

The Block (iSCSI) Shares Targets widget shows iSCSI shares configured for fibre channels. The Wizard button on the header opens the Wizard iSCSI wizard on the Target screen. See Target Screens - Fibre Channel below.

The NVMe-oF screens provide access to screens, widgets, settings, and dialogs to add, manage, or delete NVMe over Fabric subsystems (targets). NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabric) is a specification that extends NVMe storage access over network fabrics like Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand. It allows hosts to access NVMe storage remotely while maintaining the high performance and low latency benefits of NVMe.

The NVMe-oF Subsystems widget shows on the Shares screen. The header shows the status of the NVMe service as Stopped or Running, the Add button, and the more_vert dropdown menu with two options: