<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hello again Erik,</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I know, there is no AoE target that runs on Windows.</div><div><br></div><div>AoE in the commercial space is almost wholly owned by Coraid, and I /think/ that they specialize in HBAs and SAN-type appliance units. They too, like the majority of iSCSI target vendors, have their offerings very firmly positioned as a low(er) cost shared storage solution for vmware, the last time I looked. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Some folks here may know more, but generally speaking, if you're looking to boot diskless in a purely Windows environment, iSCSI is really the only option that will have any sort of flexibility for you. </div>
<div><br></div><div>To that end, I can suggest only the products I'm aware of, but specifically for COW type setups there are sanFly and CCBoot. CCBoot is a little confusing though, for what it's worth. sanFly was a very neat looking product, and got absorbed into doubletake when they bought emBoot, which I think got positioned as a storage consolidation piece of a desktop virtualization solution, similar to what happened to Ardence when Citrix bought them and rolled it into XenDesktop. However, I digress :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I wish you luck, but unfortunately the small niche that AoE is in commercially severely limits the options you have when it comes to implementing it. It's a shame too because, quite frankly, it's a very nice protocol :-(</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andrew Bobulsky</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Nov 14, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Erik Loman <<a href="mailto:erik@surfright.com">erik@surfright.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div>
<div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am looking for either commercial or free ATA over Ethernet (AoE) target software for Windows that supports many clients and Copy-On-Write (COW).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The target software seems to be included in Linux but I need it for Windows.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Please advise.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Best regards,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Erik</p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>gPXE mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:gPXE@etherboot.org">gPXE@etherboot.org</a></span><br>
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