Datacenter / Cloud Service hardware is a race to the bottom, we want simplicity and ability to work with off-the-shelf and widely available tools (Redfish (cURL

Datacenter / Cloud Service hardware is a race to the bottom, we want simplicity and ability to work with off-the-shelf and widely available tools (Redfish (cURL), IPMI (freeipmi, openipmi, ipmitool)) so we can integrate these things into our hardware management platforms. In this world, the legacy vendors like Dell and HP feel like they have to differentiate their hardware somehow, or they lose all the margin. So they'll charge you for all those "value-add" things like KVM or OOB Firmware Updates, because they can't make money on the machines themselves anymore. The irony is all that extra garbage they add to their servers is exactly the opposite of what you want at high scale and really only serves the "enterprise" market that tends to deploy VMware and hand-manage servers and need point-and-click stuff since there's no incentive to write software to manage small environments like that.