It may just be that the next generation of Dell servers will have an onboard kvm as well as IPMI.
On Wed, September 6, 2006 10:16 pm, Greg Cox wrote: >> The newer Dell boxes also come with IMPI over Ethernet that can be >> used to do some out of band monitoring/maintenance, and the older >> boxes have the 'BMC' backplane - although I've not looked into that >> all that much. I've yet to see what the new range (1950s etc..) >> have >> in the way of remote management. > > I got a sales pitch from Dell before the [12]950's were released. > The DRAC5's on them sounded like improved some of the crappiness of > the > DRAC4's (buggy Java clients, etc). One sexy bit (and this is a > retelling of something from a salesdroid, so, add salt) was that the > interface for the DRAC could be used for nongigabit in-OS > connectivity. > > I said to the droid, "So, I could use the DRAC port for out-of-band > and > SSHing into the base domain of a VMWare or Xen, and keep the gigabits > to > bond for the guest OS'es?", which got a response of "you're not the > first > person to ask that, and, yes, that's possible." > > Still waiting on work to get a 2950 in for me to play with, to that > end. > Still waiting to see if the as-yet-unreleased 860's (the 850 > replacement) are the right thing for my home setup. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
