Re: ATA over Ethernet (aoe) Experience?

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:46:43PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: 
> My current idea is two identical servers.  Each capable of carrying the 
> entire load alone, so the other is the spare.  For $5K one can get a 
> pretty decent machine (fast multicore CPU, lots of RAM, lots of disk). 
> A second $5K buys the 100% redundant spare.  And everything can fit in 2U. 
> 
> So far, so good. 
> 
> The fuzzy part comes in when I figure out how to quickly switch between 
> physical machines.  So maybe I make each machine an aoe target.  The 
> result would be that if the running machine goes down the spare could be 
> fired up, already having a complete copy of the data the dead machine 
> was using.