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> they come with IPMI... which is exactly what iLO, DRAC, etc., is iLO / iDRAC implement IPMI, but they are not the same thing. iLO and iDRAC provide web inter
by dahfizz 7y ago
> they come with IPMI... which is exactly what iLO, DRAC, etc., is
iLO / iDRAC implement IPMI, but they are not the same thing. iLO and iDRAC provide web interfaces, remote iso mounting, granular boot control, remote vga, etc. There's a lot of useful features not available in a "standard" IPMI implementation.
- mopsi 7y agoI used to have X9SCM-F, and its implementation also had a web interface, remote ISO mounting and remote VGA.
- herpderperator 7y agoAgreed; I also have X9SCM-F, and was able to do all that (which I already specified in my parent comment.)
- herpderperator 7y agoYou are confusing IPMI 1.0 with IPMI 2.0. > Systems compliant with IPMI version 2.0 can also communicate via serial over LAN, whereby serial console output can be remotely viewed over the LAN. Systems implementing IPMI 2.0 typically also include KVM over IP, remote virtual media and out-of-band embedded web-server interface functionality, although strictly speaking, these lie outside of the scope of the IPMI interface standard. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...
- parliament32 7y agoIPMI does all of that and hundreds of more features. And it's licence-free. https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/bmc-resources https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/...
- dahfizz 7y agoAgain, IPMI is a standard which includes basically none of these features. The BMC that vendors use implement IPMI and also usually provide these features.