Using ATA Over Ethernet (AoE) On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

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Last edited 08/13/2010

This guide explains how you can set up an AoE target and an AoE initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. AoE stands for "ATA over Ethernet" and is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows AoE initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) AoE target using normal ethernet cabling. "Remote" in this case means "inside the same LAN" because AoE is not routable outside a LAN (this is a major difference compared to iSCSI). To the AoE initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using two Ubuntu 10.04 servers here:

server1.example.com (Initiator): IP address 192.168.0.100 server2.example.com (Target): IP address 192.168.0.101

 

2 Loading The aoe Kernel Module On Both Systems server1/server2:

Before we start, we must make sure that the the kernel supports AoE:

grep ATA_OVER /boot/config-

Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)

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This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I'm using two Ubuntu 10.04 servers here:

server1.example.com (Initiator): IP address 192.168.0.100 server2.example.com (Target): IP address 192.168.0.101

Because we will run all the steps from this tutorial with root privileges, we can either prepend all commands in this tutorial with the string sudo, or we become root right now by typing

sudo su

 

2 Setting Up The Target (server2)server2:

First we set up the target (server2):

aptitude install iscsitarget

Open /etc/default/iscsitarget...

vi /etc/default/iscsitarget

... and set ISCSITARGET_ENABLE to true:

ISCSITARGET_ENABLE