Technologies for providing efficient pooling for a hyper converged infrastructure

One or more machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, cause circuitry of an Ethernet network interface controller (NIC) located on a host compute device to:

• obtain, via a first interface coupled with a host central processing unit (CPU), a request from the host CPU to access a data storage device;
• and;
• based on whether the data storage device is located on the host compute device or accessible through a storage server from among a network of storage servers coupled to the circuitry via a second interface, provide, to the host CPU, access to the data storage device via use of a non-volatile memory express driver.

A method for accessing a data storage device, the method comprising:

• obtaining, with circuitry of an Ethernet network interface controller (NIC) for a host computing device that includes a first interface to communicatively couple with a host central processing unit (CPU) and a second interface to communicatively couple to a network of storage servers, a request from the host CPU to access a data storage device;
• and
• based on whether the data storage device is located on the host compute device or accessible through a storage server from among the network of storage servers, providing, by the circuitry, access to the data storage device by the host CPU via use of a non-volatile memory express driver.