Coraid aoe driver

 · Coraid was started up in by Brantley Coile who had a lot of Cisco experience in his CV. He devised and patented the AoE protocol based on transmitting datagrams between servers and SATA disk drive arrays. WinAoE is an open source GPLv3 driver for using AoE (ATA over Ethernet) on Microsoft Windows(tm). It can be used to disklessly boot Windows through Vista 64 from an AoE device (virtual vblade or real Coraid device), or can be used as a general AoE access driver. How to use WinAoE Download the latest version below and read the www.doorway.ru file. Coraid, Inc. went out of business in , but its intellectual property and trademark were purchased by SouthSuite, Inc., the AoE inventor Brantley Coile's new company. The SouthSuite support team can assist with classic Coraid systems going back to because they have one thing no other company has: the inventor of the original technology.

The ATA over Ethernet Protocol Brantley Coile Sam Hopkins Coraid, Inc. Research Drive Athens, GA {brantley|sah}@www.doorway.ru 1. Introduction AoE is an open standards based protocol that allows direct network access to disk drives by client hosts such as web servers, mail servers, or cluster servers. These systems can use the AoE protocol to. The Coraid EtherDrive SAN system is unbelievably easy to use thanks to the EtherDrive Host Bus Adaptor (HBA). Once installed in your host server, the HBA's driver mimics a straight-forward SAS adaptor. Suddenly, the Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) on your EtherDrive SRX Media Arrays appear to be Direct Attached Storage (DAS). SCSI disk. The HBA driver and EtherDrive HBA translate disk requests to AoE requests and transmit the requests to the Ethernet SAN. As responses return from the Ethernet SAN, the reverse translation occurs in the HBA driver. To use Coraid’s Ethernet SAN with your host, one or more Coraid EtherDrive HBAs must be installed.

Coraid supplies the HBA (which I was informed is a reflashed Gigabit Ethernet NIC), the AoE driver (easy to install and available for. One issue with them on linux is that the in-kernel 'aoe' driver is typically pretty old. Coraid's latest aoe driver is version What makes AoE attractive is mainly its simplicity. version: 85 description: AoE block/char driver for and newer kernels.