Rob, the Gen8 Microservers have two builtin bge ports (that work fine with SmartOS - at least in our setups) plus an additional NIC on the BMC (specifically for iLO. I read that one of the bge’s can be shared with iLO but haven’t done that at all as I fully agree with your reasoning below.
Peter > Am 12.01.2016 um 17:34 schrieb Rob Seastrom <[email protected]>: > > >> On Jan 12, 2016, at 3:18 AM, Chris Ridd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On my Gen 8 Microserver, one of the NICs is shared with the iLO port, but >> you can dedicate it to the iLO by pressing F9 during the POST screen. Does >> doing that make a difference on the gen 9? > > My experience at my previous job a few years ago, echoed by the systems > architecture and operations teams at my current job, is that you are likely > to come to grief by sharing a "real" port with an iLO (thus relying on an > internal switch on the BMC) and that best practices are to eat the relatively > minor inconvenience of a separate cable and switch port in exchange for less > frustration. > >> I really wish HP used Intel NICs... > > What's the G8 Microserver use? bge ? My N40L is turned off and at a > friend's house, in preference the the DL160G6 I have in the basement right > now... which has igbs. > > -r > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
