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ATA Over Ethernet: As an Alternative
Apr 4th
New technologies, new toys — Oh how I love getting my hands dirty with them. Today I am going to have a look at ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) as an alternative solution to NFS in the role of a NAS/SAN implementation. We will look at both the server side vblade setup and the client side AoE kernel module along with a practical deployment setup which includes a convenience script I developed to make vbladed slightly less of a nuisance to maintain.
First things first though, what exactly is ATA Over Ethernet? Straight off the wikipedia page, here are the important parts More >
On The Road: Network Disaster & Dual Public-Private Network
Mar 24th
As an administrator within a mid-sized organization, you can find yourself wearing many occupational hats, which becomes only second nature after awhile. One of these many hats I wear, is that of lead network administrator, which is something I am particularly fond of… I love networking and everything about it (except maybe wiring racks and crimping ).
Today many data center networks are designed in a dual public-private network setup, which simply put is you have a private network parallel to your public network — effectively you run two cat6 copper runs to all racks and servers. The traditional concept behind More >
