I manage about 170 servers, most are Sun, several of the newer ones are Dell. Both the newer iLom's in Sun equipment, and DRAC6 cards seem to work reasonably well in my opinion. Some of the older flavors have problems, and I can't really recommend one completely over the other. For me, remote management of a server is reasonably critical - and I find it incredibly beneficial to be able to remotely access the server's power, console screen, etc. While the Sun servers just have it included, yes, it's extra $$ for the Dell side.
The other day I needed to upgrade the OS on an older HP cluster we have-- none of the nodes have any kind of ilom/elom/drac. It was... time consuming to not be able to do things remotely. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
