"Derek J. Balling" <[email protected]> writes: > On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > > Of course, > > if you are running windows and need a KVM over IP, this doesn't help, > > but serial consoles are /vastly superior/ for linux use. > > > external serial consoles, in my experience both personally and > > working on Yahoo's search cluster, are much more reliable than > > both the HP ILO and the dell DRAC. (the hp ILO is marginally > > better than the dell DRAC, but it is still garbage compared to > > an external serial console.) > > Sorry to re-open a thread that's sorta dead, but I just saw this, and > couldn't let it go unaddressed. > > As soon as you can do virtual-media to mount a firmware CD, or an install CD, > or a remote thumbdrive, using only the serial-console, let me know. > > But there's a whole mess of reasons why ILO/DRAC are /vastly superior/ to > just a serial redirection of the console.
If you are using windows, or some other OS that requires such relics, I agree. However, on Linux, everything can be PXE-booted. Yes, even your dos firmware images can be PXE-booted. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
