On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 05:43:13PM +0200, Werner Stucky spake thusly: > I need to make a decision for going with a technology for a SAN for our > VMWare ESXi environment.
I use it with Xen quite successfully. Not the same, I know. > I would very much like to go with AoE but I need to know that the > standard is open and that there is no vendor lock-in. I find that it is quite open. Both the target and initiator are available under the GPL. > Does the CORAID HBA which has drivers for ESXi allow me to connect to a > linux server running vblade? I was not aware that they made an HBA. Although I recall a while back (nearly two years ago) running into someone (although I thought he was in France) looking to bake AoE into an FPGA or something. Maybe this is what became of that work. http://support.coraid.com/support/esx/faq.html might be useful to you. > I would like to do initial testing with a linux box before making a > decision. I can easily start a iSCSI target and test but AoE seems a > bit complicated in that I need a HBA, and then I still have not > confirmation if this HBA will work. You don't need an HBA to use AoE in general. I use the Linux aoe kernel module initiator. ESXi, although it is based on Linux, does not have the aoe kernel module initiator as far as I know. So the HBA may be your only way to go there. But AoE itself is definitely not proprietary. That was a smart move by Coraid or it would never have gone anywhere. I'm still a bit disappointed in Coraid's marketing in that I am yet to meet anyone who has heard of AoE who isn't from this list or I didn't introduce AoE to. The simplicity of AoE should be a huge selling point but from what I can see it just isn't making much impact. -- Tracy Reed http://tracyreed.org
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