Microsoft recently announced the NVMe-oF Initiator Preview for Windows Server Insider builds, bringing enterprise-grade, high-performance block storage connectivity natively to Windows Server over standard Ethernet — no specialized hardware required. Lightbits has been working closely with the Microsoft Windows Server team throughout this preview, and we’re excited to share our early results.
In this walkthrough, you’ll see:
- How to provision a volume on a Lightbits cluster using lbcli
- How to discover and configure the NVMe/TCP connection using nvmeofutil.exe
- How a Lightbits volume instantly appears as a disk in Windows — ready to use