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Imagine you have a machine with all of its disk full and another with unused gigabytes, and you don't want to move the data from one to the other. Why not using the second's disk on the first, you can do it with iSCSI but you can do it with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) too. It's the second method I'll explain in this article. All of this was made with two computers running Debian Etch.

Xen-AoE is a cluster server architecture which provides more efficient use of cpu, disk, and memory resources than traditional servers while providing zero single points of failure ensuring high availability and greater server maintainability. It does this through the use of server virtualization, utilization of SAN technologies, decoupling of disk from cpu, and taking advantage of commodity hardware such as x86 cpu's and readily available gigabit ethernet infrastructure. Xen-AoE can save your business money by better utilizing hardware resources, simplifying management, and decreasing losses due to downtime.