"At NASA, CORAID’s EtherDrive appliance is used in a
disk-to-disk application for periodic data backup and emergency retrieval.
Recovering data is now as simple as retrieving the disk and inserting it in
another CORAID appliance or any Linux server. This feature enables us to access
critical data in a standard format. I am so pleased with the CORAID strategy I
plan to add additional SATA+RAID EtherDrive Storage appliances to our programs."
J.W. System Analyst NASA SDO Ground
System
"What a concept…instead of buying expensive servers, CORAID has shown us how to attach disks to our existing servers for storage.
Adding inexpensive SATA disks via EtherDrive Storage allows our servers to
be sized to meet their application load, not by the amount of storage capacity
they can hold."
A. N. U.S. Geological
Survey
We started using one CORAID unit a few months ago, and using LVM and XFS recently expanded it with another unit. Everything worked beautifully.
D. M. Sys Admin
I just wanted to say that I think your product is the best thing since sliced bread.
I can't believe more people don't know about this. Keep up the great work, and thanks for making my life a whole lot nicer.
D. M. Sys Admin
We
started using one CORAID unit a few months ago, and using LVM and XFS
recently expanded it with another unit. Everything worked beautifully. Honestly, it bordered on miraculous for me.
D. M. Sys Admin
AoE Drivers & Tools
Coraid's AoE software driver has been part of the Linux main line kernel since February 2005 with the release of version 2.6.11. So ATA-over-Ethernet storage protocol has been native to Linux for many years. This driver uses the host systems standard NIC interface to access standard open source ATA-over-Ethernet storage, including EtherDrive storage.
The latest version of the Linux kernel driver source code is available at this links.
Coraid has also developed special Host Bus Adapter (HBA) hardware and HBA drivers for Linux, OpenSolaris, Windows and VMware ESX/ESXi operating systems. Dual 10GigE and dual GigE HBAs in PCI-E form factor are availble form Coraid.
Using an HBA to access the Ethernet SAN offers many advantages over a software only driver. Advantage include:
** An EtherDrive HBA provides dedicated Ethernet connections to your Ethernet SAN. ** Coraid's EtherDrive HBA driver and hardware are tuned to optimize performance. ** EtherDrive HBAs offer enhanced Ethernet SAN monitoring and troubleshooting.
EtherDrive HBA software drivers are free and available for download at these links.