Hi Smart,
Thanks for all the guide lines and showing some goals. I wish some more
valuable suggestions and guidelines from you as well as from othe community
members, because i wish a bright path for AoE in storage networking.
Thanks & Best Regards,
Krishna
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, er krishna <erkris...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Smart <sm...@smartpal.de> wrote:
>
>> As this is a kind of request for "goals" i just and plain state such here,
>> despite that it is not a developing target as such. More a use case.
>
>
> >>>> Use Cases are also welcome.....& believe me it has same value for me
> like any development work.
>
>>
>>
>> IMO diskless boot is a big thing, and for achieving such all the related
>> components should get attention.
>
>
> >>>> Once I have setup PXE booting for thinclients when I was working with
> UNDI driver. and let me tell you diskless booting is not a big thing, its'
> an interesting work ; you can always have fun when you play with booting
> work.
>
>>
>>
>> - Adding boot support for AoE in distros (i.e. i have built myself an
>> initrd to boot from AoE via PXE)
>
>
> >>>> I think PXE booting ( with the help of DHCP server + TFTP server )
> support for AoE is already provided by Coraid. Win AoE also provide support
> of diskless booting for Windows client. Ed Cashin can comment on this.
>
>>
>> - Perfect would be, if BIOSs would support booting from AoE (as has afaik
>> recently be realized by AMI for iSCSI, AoE should be easier no ?), open
>> BIOSs should get support. That way it should even be possible to boot MS
>> Software from AoE.
>
>
> >>>> This seems quite interesting work. I will have a look of it and let
> you know after my investigation. Some more clear and detail problem
> statement ( oe guideline ) from your side can help me to achieve this target
> easily .
>
>
>>
>> - Getting AoE support into common NAS devices (especially bigger RAIDed
>> ones)
>
>
> >>>> Just asking, ( may be I am not aware ) , is there any problem with
> AoE in terms of storage capacity when it is used with bigger RAID devices ?
> If its' like that then please let me know. I will have a look of it also.
>
> Thanks & Best Regards,
> Krishna
>
>>
>>
>>
>> er krishna schrieb:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Its a long time for me to playing with AoE targets and now I think I
>>> should contribute something to AoE. AoE has to go a long way, so we can
>>> always make it comparable to iSCSI in terms of reliablility, speed and
>>> features.
>>>
>>> First of all, I want to list out the features where we can get
>>> challanges if we use AoE in Enterprise SAN.
>>>
>>> I want to ask all the community members weather they are kernel hackers,
>>> system admin or end users : where you feel that some features are missing in
>>> AoE. Tell me the features which you really want or you think it should be in
>>> AoE targets (like configuration files, GUI, MPIO, Platform Comaptibility). I
>>> just want to know at least one feature from all the people in AoE community,
>>> so that I can filter some of them and start working accordingly.
>>>
>>> Thanks & Best regards,
>>> Krishna
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