With the release of SRA 5.0.0 from Everpure and SRM 8.7 from VMware, NVMe-oF datastores can now be used in SRM. This requires both SRA 5.0.0+ and SRM 8.7+; if versions lower than these are in use, following these configuration steps will not enable NVMe-oF support.
The configuration files from the SRA need to be downloaded from one of the SRM server's administration page and a flag needs for NVMe-oF support needs to be changed from false to true.
(1) Log in to one of the SRM appliance's administration website by adding :5480 to the SRM server's URL in a web browser. The SRM server here is accessible through 10.21.202.103 and :5480 has been added. Left click on (2) Storage Replication Adapters then left click the (3) ellipses and finally left click (4) Download configuration archive.
This will download (1) puresra_latest.tar.gz to the machine logged into the SRM management console. Using the compression tool of your choice, extract this archive.
The (1) extracted archive has 3 files in it but for NVMe-oF support the only one that matters is (2) PureStorageSRA.xml. Open this file in the text editor of your choice. One this is open, change the (3) <NvmeSupport>false</NvmeSupport> line from false to true. Save this file.
Using the compression tool of your choice, run .gz compression on the puresra_latest.tar folder. In this example, OSX's built in command line tools were used to compress the folder by running (1) tar cvfz puresra_latest.tar.gz * in the correct directory.
Now that puresra_latest_tar.gz has the updated PureStorageSRA.xml file, nagivate to the SRM management pane (SRMServerURL:5480) for both SRM servers.
Left click (1) Storage Replication Adapters, left click the (2) ellpises then left click (3) Upload configuration archive.
Left click (1) BROWSE, select the archive with the updated .xml file named puresra_latest.tar.gz, then left click (2) UPLOAD.
Once the new archive has been uploaded on both SRM servers, navigate to one of the SRM servers management panes by putting in the SRM server's URL into a web browser.
Left click (1) Site Pair, left click (2) Storage Replication Adapters then left click (3) RESCAN ADAPTERS. Repeat this for the other site by selecting the (4) site toggle then left click (3) RESCAN ADAPTERS again.
Now when SRM is configured and there are NVMe-oF datastores present, navigating to (1) Site Pair then (2) Array Pairs and selecting an (3) Array Pair that has NVMe-oF datatsores in it, when running (4) DISCOVER DEVICES the NVMe-oF datastores should be visible.