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...ogy on one single host, which wasn`t designed for that. to give a short overview of what i`m talking about: AoE is just like a "networked blockdevice" (just like nbd/enbd) - but without tcp/ip. AoE kernel driver is the "client end" (see this like an iSCSI initiator) - and an etherblade storage appliance is the "server end" (see this like an iSCSI target) there is a software equivalent to etherblade storage which is called vblade (part of the aoetools project) - or vblade-kernel (another implementation, but done as a kernel module) a very nice article about what AoE is...