Idea for a AoE Plug-in.

Hello everyone,

I think a ATA over Ethernet plugin could be great.

We use this since years at my office.
The first install with ATA over Ethernet was an CORAID EtherDrive SR1521 solution with 15x 1TB disks.

A few months ago we decided add more storage capacity.
Because of the success of CORAID, their solutions are now too much expensive.
So we decided to find an alternative solution to CORAID.
We find out that the SR1521chassis is an SUPERMICRO SuperChassis 933T-R760.
We find and by it over Ebay for 253 euros including one 3WARE 9550SXU-16ML controller. We by three of them, ...for spare parts, ...maybe add more storage when needed.
Added one ssd for the install of Ubuntu Server that includes the ATA over Ethernet Tools and 15x 2Tb disks (WD20EFRX, 1245 euros).
Finely when install finished, one unique disk with a capacity of 26Tb (14 hdd in raid 5) is exported to the main samba server. The 15th disk is for spare.
I think this is kind of solution is very cheap, total hardware costs of 1498 euros for 26Tb storage.

I can imagine the same situation with an ATA over Ethernet plugin for OMV.
An second OMV server that only exports whit ATAoE its single hdd or in raid to a main OMV server that mounts and share them.

What do you think ...

Any news for AoE plugin for Openmediavalut?

I would make something like this:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/fo…16&e=1&view=unread#unread

And communnity suggested me this:
http://www.instructables.com/i…or-Non-Networked-Devices/

How do you think?

Of course then I need to include completly separate disk for AoE purposes.
But as I think - I can also have an acces from Samba into this second disk (am I right) ?

I see this plug in and I think: Nice when we can't get iScsi then this will maybe be my goto plug-in.

I am getting this error every time i click on the plugin:

Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C; aoe-stat' with exit code '1':

Error #0: OMV\ExecException: Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C; aoe-stat' with exit code '1': in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/process.inc:175 Stack trace: #0 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/aoe.inc(134): OMV\System\Process->execute(Array) #1 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceAoe->getInitiatorList(Array, Array) #2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc(86): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod('getInitiatorLis...', Array, Array) #4 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(536): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('AOE', 'getInitiatorLis...', Array, Array, 1) #5 {main}

I am on plugin version 4.0

I am getting nothing. Pressing enter and then nothing.

Do you have a functioning AoE target operating somewhere? Coraid, vblade or other?

I have not set up anything yet. But i wanted to make a aoe server wich other devices could connect to.

Nice. I definitely is going to check that out.

Update: It works and it is pretty easy to setup.

Feature suggestion:
Maybe the "Filename" could be either a dropdown to choose a local disk or a file.
If you then choose file then you would be able to make a file.
If you choose a local disk you could choose to use a local disk which was not referenced to anything in OMV.