[TriLUG] Re: remote hardware management

Matt Pusateri mpusateri at wickedtrails.com
Wed Sep 6 22:00:51 EDT 2006


It may just be that the next generation of Dell servers will have an
onboard kvm as well as IPMI.

On Wed, September 6, 2006 10:16 pm, Greg Cox wrote:
>> The newer Dell boxes also come with IMPI over Ethernet that can be
>> used to do some out of band monitoring/maintenance, and the older
>> boxes have the 'BMC' backplane - although I've not looked into that
>> all that much.  I've yet to see what the new range (1950s etc..)
>> have
>> in the way of remote management.
>
> I got a sales pitch from Dell before the [12]950's were released.
> The DRAC5's on them sounded like improved some of the crappiness of
> the
> DRAC4's (buggy Java clients, etc).  One sexy bit (and this is a
> retelling of something from a salesdroid, so, add salt) was that the
> interface for the DRAC could be used for nongigabit in-OS
> connectivity.
>
> I said to the droid, "So, I could use the DRAC port for out-of-band
> and
> SSHing into the base domain of a VMWare or Xen, and keep the gigabits
> to
> bond for the guest OS'es?", which got a response of "you're not the
> first
> person to ask that, and, yes, that's possible."
>
> Still waiting on work to get a 2950 in for me to play with, to that
> end.
> Still waiting to see if the as-yet-unreleased 860's (the 850
> replacement) are the right thing for my home setup.
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