Steven Kurylo <[email protected]> writes: > While the DRACs on my 2650's are old (which may excuse them), I find > they're horrible compared to my HP iLo's.
This was also my experience. (I don't own any HP or Dell kit, but I've worked for clients with many of both.) > They're quite slow. Sometimes the DRACs serial and video redirect > become read-only. I've never figured what causes it. They hang more > often, though I can't recall off hand I'm sure there's a way to reboot > them without pulling power. You can solve most of DRAC's problems by redirecting the linux console to the DRAC serial and using SSH to access the drac. a seperate serial console and rebooter setup is still cheaper and more reliable, though. I have never seen a KVM over IP that worked very well, but the HP stuff was noticably more reliable than the DELL stuff. Either way, you are best off using serial (either through the 'lights out' card or through a seperate serial console server.) _______________________________________________ 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/
