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Vblade is a software-based AoE target, a virtual EtherDrive Blade. It exports local block storage to hosts on an ethernet local area network. Hosts with an ATA over Ethernet (AoE) initiator, like the aoe driver for Linux, can then access the storage over the ethernet.

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2008-05-09 10:21
16

Two contributed patches were added. One of them
adds AIO support, and the other one uses the
Berkeley Packet Filter to avoid unecessary wakeups
of the vblade process.
Tags: Minor feature enhancements

2008-03-07 22:00
15

Data size checks are now more specific, making the vblade work over the loopback network device and work with network device drivers that fail to pad short packets.
Tags: Minor feature enhancements

2005-12-07 20:03
10

Support for ATA over Ethernet's config string feature was added. A handler for the ATA Check power mode command was added.
Tags: Major feature enhancements

2005-11-17 02:24
9

The fixed vbladed script can now daemonize the vblade. FreeBSD support has been added. Config response packets now provide the correct length. Slackware compatibility was enhanced. The vblade version is now included in the AoE firmware version field.
Tags: Major bugfixes

2005-09-08 18:19
6

The bytes in each short are no longer swapped on big endian architectures in the ATA identify response.
Tags: Minor bugfixes

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