ATA Over Ethernet protocol

• Provides a network interface for hard drives.

• Allows low level hard drive manipulation over the network

• IP level protocol, very basic.

• Few security measures.

• Virtual hard drives can be managed server side.

• Currently used to allow windows to be booted over the network

• 8 virtual hard drives with windows currently hosted on tinkerbell for use in the cosi labs.

• http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/How_do_I_ instructions to boot windows in the labs

• virtual hard drives are backed by copy on write devices, so that images can be reset very quickly

Some Guides I used to setup the system

http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/cow

http://winaoe.org/

http://windowsdisklessaoe.wordpress.com/