Johan Ström wrote:
On Mar 13, 2008, at 1:01 AM, Sean Winn wrote:
For using HP blades and standard iLO (no licensed advance features),
it works perfectly well, installing both FreeBSD 5 and 6 on the blades
I've tried, using a remote install CD from the Java applet (there's
one for remote devices like disks, and one for remote console);
there's only text mode but that's plenty to install the OS and enable
it to the point of using SSH to manage it from there on in. I'd hope
the iLO hardware/software is relatively common to all the HP range :)
text mode access continues at all times - the iLO interface is just a
remote screen/keyboard onto it, even POST BIOS boot. The external
devices are USB mass storage ones, but I didn't have problems booting
off the CD and installing it for 6.2.
Well.. The blades seems to be an exception:
• iLO 2 Standard Blade Edition (unlicensed blade server):
o Remote Console and IRC
This is not listed under "iLO 2 Standard (unlicensed:)"... I guess that
means I'm out of luck unless I want to bang up another $400 (listing
price).. Which I'd rather not :)
Anyone running those 360G5's using serial console on a normal licensed iLO?
Yes. We have one DL360 G5, and I was able to get serial console working
using information I found in this thread --
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-October/000303.html
Only downside is that the physical COM1 becomes unavailable, which
caused some consternation when trying to monitor a UPS :-)
FreeBSD 7 amd64 (still BETA4) acting as a Samba file server, works very
well for us.
--
David Schutt
Speco, Inc "When all you have is a screwdriver handle,
3946 Willow St everything looks like a nail"
Schiller Park, IL 60176
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