On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > On the other hand, it is perfectly reasonable to compare products and > prices. Many departments on our campus have shifted to Linux and either > AMD or Intel. The computing cluster in Astronomy was built on SuperMicro > rack mount servers with AMD processors, DRAC cards, and Ubuntu LTS > Server. I don't recall how many systems are in that cluster, but it's a > lot. The admin had some complaints about the DRAC cards, but got them > working satisfactorily and can manage the entire cluster remotely, > starting up, shutting down, either individually or en masse.
My thoughts about DRAC cards is that for the cost of the card multiplied by the number of systems in a cluster it was more cost effective to drive a few miles to the data center on those rare occasions that the BMC wouldn't do everything I needed. This was on Dell, not SuperMicro equipment. When managing only a dozen or so systems remotely, the answer is very different. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
