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Sure, but the licenses to unlock them are easy to acquire. Dell ties them to the service tag, which is quite easy to set via racadm and you can buy a license o

Sure, but the licenses to unlock them are easy to acquire. Dell ties them to the service tag, which is quite easy to set via racadm and you can buy a license off eBay. Older Dell systems required a $30 part you can find on eBay. HP just uses a key they send you on paper. Hell, many times these decoms still have the license applied to them. I have 2xR210 II’s, a R320, R520 and formerly had a HP ML10 and a Lenovo TD340. The Lenovo was the biggest pain to get VKVM because of the stupid hard to find dongle. Don’t buy Lenovo servers for a homelab; BTW. Dell lets you override the ramp in fan speed when a non-Dell branded PCIe card is installed, newer Lenovo servers ramp them up to 100% and you can’t turn it off (I had to leave my TD340 on the initial BIOS revision with security issues because of this).

lozaning 7y ago
Back when I was in the HP VAR game iLO licenses where some of my highest money makers. MSRP for those licenses was like $250.00. I was buying them grey market from ESISO for like $35 a pop.
- vbezhenar 7y ago
  I bought ilo advanced license for my microserver for $5 at ebay. It worked just fine.
  - gsich 7y ago
    Probably from a keygen or duplicate use. But won't matter anyway. The ILO (or HP) will never know.
mey 7y ago
I have some principals with my homelab. Not doing grey market licensing is one of them. That's my personal preference, but just wanted to point out that iDRAC enterprise is additional.
bubblethink 7y ago
The 100% fan on non-whitelisted card is such a dick move. Is there a single legit reason for this ? Did someone's building burn down because they didn't buy the quadro gpu that Dell sells ?
- snuxoll 7y ago
  It’s not even limited to GPU’s, a quad-port Intel NIC in my TD340 causes it to max fan speeds if I’m not running the A01 BIOS. The argument is they don’t know the thermal requirements of the card because it’s not OEM-branded so they max the fans “to be safe”, but not letting you override it is just bullshit.
  - sitkack 7y ago
    They do something similar on Chromebooks and 3rd party mini pcie WiFi cards. If you insert a non Lenovo branded card, it will fail to even enter the bios screen with a Dick Move error. Also, same stupid justification,”this configuration hasn’t passed FCC EMI tests” when the cards a qualified directly, they are the FCC certification boundary.
    - bubblethink 7y ago
      I think lenovo has stopped doing that recently. However, we now have soldered wifi cards.
louwrentius 7y ago
> Hell, many times these decoms still have the license applied to them I was indeed that lucky. Thank you <bank>.

lozaning 7y ago

Back when I was in the HP VAR game iLO licenses where some of my highest money makers. MSRP for those licenses was like $250.00. I was buying them grey market from ESISO for like $35 a pop.

vbezhenar 7y ago
I bought ilo advanced license for my microserver for $5 at ebay. It worked just fine.
- gsich 7y ago
  Probably from a keygen or duplicate use. But won't matter anyway. The ILO (or HP) will never know.

mey 7y ago

I have some principals with my homelab. Not doing grey market licensing is one of them. That's my personal preference, but just wanted to point out that iDRAC enterprise is additional.

bubblethink 7y ago

The 100% fan on non-whitelisted card is such a dick move. Is there a single legit reason for this ? Did someone's building burn down because they didn't buy the quadro gpu that Dell sells ?

snuxoll 7y ago
It’s not even limited to GPU’s, a quad-port Intel NIC in my TD340 causes it to max fan speeds if I’m not running the A01 BIOS. The argument is they don’t know the thermal requirements of the card because it’s not OEM-branded so they max the fans “to be safe”, but not letting you override it is just bullshit.
- sitkack 7y ago
  They do something similar on Chromebooks and 3rd party mini pcie WiFi cards. If you insert a non Lenovo branded card, it will fail to even enter the bios screen with a Dick Move error. Also, same stupid justification,”this configuration hasn’t passed FCC EMI tests” when the cards a qualified directly, they are the FCC certification boundary.
  - bubblethink 7y ago
    I think lenovo has stopped doing that recently. However, we now have soldered wifi cards.

louwrentius 7y ago

> Hell, many times these decoms still have the license applied to them I was indeed that lucky. Thank you <bank>.