{"id":675,"date":"2006-09-11T01:10:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laptopsolaris.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2006-09-11T01:10:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T08:10:45","slug":"ata-over-ethernet-for-solaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"ATA-over-Ethernet for Solaris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed for the first time recently the <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~3\/12511688\/3218\">ATA over Ethernet<\/a> product from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coraid.com\">Coraid<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a Solaris driver available (impressively in both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coraid.com\/support\/solaris\/aoe-1.2-beta.Z\">SPARC binary, Solaris 7+ (direct download)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coraid.com\/support\/solaris\/aoe-1.2-beta.tar.gz\">source (direct download)<\/a>, under a BSD-like license. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coraid.com\/support\/solaris\/\">release notes<\/a> are required reading too. <\/p>\n<p>ATA over Ethernet is an interesting concept, albeit an expensive one at the moment, but I like the idea of remote disks, rather than remote computers. The reason is simple: in many ways it would make much more sense for those situations where you want a lot of storage, but still with direct access to the hardware you want to use it on. Traditionally you&#8217;d use NFS for that, but that would require a cheap-ish server, which seems a waste. Move the hard disks away (for noise\/heat reasons) and keep the CPU and graphics interface local; video production and even large (but not necessarily fast) databases. <\/p>\n<p>Now marry up ATA over Ethernet with ZFS and you could have a phenomenal ZFS pool, accessibly directly from the desktop, and without the need to keep a unit like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/servers\/x64\/x4500\/\">Thumper<\/a> in a cabinet next to your desk. <\/p>\n<p>Shame I probably wont get the chance to try it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed for the first time recently the ATA over Ethernet product from Coraid. Now there is a Solaris driver available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}