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Gert Huisman
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Sep 30, 2008 1:26 AM

What is special on the AoE driver for VMWare  ESX

 

Why do we need a special driver  for VMWare  ESX?  If I  remember correctly  VMWare ESX is build on a Linux kernel. The AoE driver is part of the standard linux kernel for some time now.  Dit VMWare  disable the AoE driver or are they build on older kernels?

 

 

Gert

 

 

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1. Sep 30, 2008 10:47 AM in response to: Gert Huisman
Re: What is special on the AoE driver for VMWare  ESX

 

ESX is NOT built on a Linux kernel.  It is its own purpose-built proprietary kernel.

 

 

It uses a Linux kernel to boot and provide some management services, but its performant I/O is done by drivers in that proprietary kernel.

 

 

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2. Sep 30, 2008 11:11 AM in response to: Gert Huisman
Re: What is special on the AoE driver for VMWare  ESX

The console OS is linux, VMKernel (ESX) is not.  The ESX AoE driver interacts with the VMkernel itself allowing imported AoE targets to be used as block devices for ESX itself.  This means one can format it as VMFS and store the virtual machines on AoE targets.

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