Hi, For a LAN, AOE seems to have less overhead, so performance *might* be better (assuming the network is the bottleneck).
iSCSI is much more popular in the industry, though. My experience is with iSCSI - feel free to ask me if you need more info on setting up iSCSI initiators & targets. Cheers, Rony -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Shimshoni Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:05 AM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: AOE and iSCSI (software only) Hello, Linux-il gurus, I have to decide between two options of exporting block devices on a LAN (same subnet for clients and server) : one is with iSCSI target and iSCSI initiator. The second is with AOE. I am talking about using software tools only, not using special hardware. I had tested AOE with my hardware (no special hw): I had downloaded aoetools from http://sourceforge.net/projects/aoetools/. I had also installed blade server of this project on the server side. (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=130453&package_id=143 790). I can mount on the client a file which I am exporting on the AOE server. (which is running this blade). My question is this: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using AOE versus iSCSI? Does anybody have any experience/advice regarding using AOE on Linux (sw only, I am not talkin about CORAID, etc) ? Regards, Dan ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]