Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > Assume I've only ever played around with a X2100M2 which has eLOM - seems to > work fine for me, so what would I be missing out on by not having ILOM? What > are the differences exactly? >
The difference between ELOM and ILOM is functionality. The ILOM has more enterprise features, including support for RADIUS, LDAP, NIS, and even Kerberos. Most importantly, ILOM allows you to set both the server side console speed as wells the SP side console speed... this is extremely important because Solaris defaults to a 9600 baud rate, whereas the ELOM is hardcoded to 57,600 on the server side, which means that you have to tweek the Solaris baud rate settings to actually use the console. There are other annoyences in the SMASH CLP (the directory structured interface), such as /SP/AgentInfo/Console on ELOM versus the more gentle /SP/Console on ILOM. In general, ILOM is simply the best SP available, where as ELOM is its retarded cousin. Mind you, both are superior to other vendor options such as Dell's DRAC. benr. _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
