Note that NVMe-oF is GA'd as a part of tentacle. Earlier releases are 
limited/might not work. 

Regards,
Aviv

-----Original Message-----
From: Eugen Block via dev <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, 13 April 2026 13:26
To: Ernesto Puerta <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ceph-users] Status of iSCSI-Gateway

Yeah that's my first suspicion as well (HugePages), I'm gonna look into it. 
Thanks a lot!

Zitat von Ernesto Puerta <[email protected]>:

> Maybe you're hitting issues configuring HugePages inside a VM? In any 
> case, there's an #nvmeof Slack channel and the team is always quick to 
> respond over there.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Ernesto
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM Eugen Block <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for your quick response.
>>
>> The reason I'm asking about iSCSI is because I have been able to 
>> deploy and use it in earlier releases (the last one was probably 
>> Pacific), but I'm struggling with deploying NVMe-oF in a virtual lab 
>> cluster. I haven't had the time to really dig into it yet, so there's 
>> definitely a knowledge gap I need to close. Until I made some 
>> progress with NVMe-oF I thought maybe iSCSI could still be used. The 
>> use case is to grant access to an air-gapped Ceph cluster.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Eugen
>>
>> Zitat von Ernesto Puerta <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > Hey Eugen,
>> >
>> > AFAIK the Ceph NVMe-oF Gateway superseded the iSCSI one: it's 
>> > actively maintained, more performant, scalable, secure and better 
>> > integrated with the Ceph management & observability framework.
>> >
>> > I'm curious: what's the target platform/use case for iSCSI that 
>> > NVMe/TCP cannot fulfill?
>> >
>> > Kind Regards,
>> > Ernesto
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 8:58 AM Eugen Block via ceph-users < 
>> > [email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> could someone clarify if using iscsi via cephadm is still 
>> >> supported or not? According to [0] it's "in maintenance" since 
>> >> November 2022, so no active development. But it's still documented 
>> >> in all active releases and can be deployed in Squid or Tentacle 
>> >> (though I haven't checked if it actually works).
>> >> Is it still supported to use iSCSI?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>> >> Eugen
>> >>
>> >> [0] 
>> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.ceph.com
>> >> _en_latest_rbd_iscsi-2Doverview_-23ceph-2Discsi&d=DwIFaQ&c=BSDicqB
>> >> QBDjDI9RkVyTcHQ&r=Im4omk4NdceLPvgb6sEXw3r6y71Z9JDuTGk4GMFulW0&m=VD
>> >> MpTn9kP-I6POYWFAW6K418IPSCrPIGEyC5M22ibV2sgB49EZVv3TE0VYFRXwsN&s=S
>> >> pUmSLpyOcc2_lfh9pDoVoVxJCEwgOwDDvLgQah7Sl4&e=
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