Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote:
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On 09.02.2010 15:37, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
*SNIP*
I can't agree with the last statement about HP's iLO. I have addon card
in ML110 G5 (dedicated NIC), the card is "expensive" and bugs are
amazing. The management NIC freezes once a day (or more often) with
older firmware and must be restarted from inside the installed system by
IPMI command on "localhost". With newer firmware, the interface is
periodicaly restarded. The virtual media doesn't work at all. It is my
worst experience with remote management cards.
I believe that other HP servers with built-in card with different FW is
working better, this is just my experience.
Next one is eLOM in Sun Fire X2100 (shared NIC using bge + ASF). ASF
works without problem, but virtual media works only if you are
connecting by IP address, not by domain name (from Windows machines) and
there is some issue with timeouts of virtual media / console.
I reported this + 8 different bugs of web management interface to Sun
more than year ago - none was fixed.
Next place is for IBM 3650 + RSA II card (dedicated NIC). Expensive,
something works, somthing not. For example the card can't read CPU
temperature, so you will not recieve any alert in case of overheating.
(it was 2 years ago, maybe newer firmware is fixed)
Then I have one Supermicro Twin server 6016TT-TF with built-in IPMI /
KVM with dedicated NIC port. I found one bug with fan rpm readings (half
the number compared to BIOS numbers) and one problem with FreeBSD 7.x
sysinstall (USB keyboard not working, but sysinstall from 8.x works
without problem). In installed FreeBSD system keyboard and virtual media
is working without problems.
On the top is Dell R610 DRAC (dedicated NIC) - I didn't find any bugs
and there are a lot more features compared to concurrent products.
I think the general consensus here is "nice theory lousy
implementation", and the added migraine of no such thing as a common
standard.
Maybe creating a common standard for this could be a nice GSOC project,
to build a nice "remote console" based on SSH and arm/mips?
p.s. I've seen the various proprietary remote console solutions. They
didn't really impress me much, so I ended up using off-the-shelf
components for building my servers. Not necessarily cheaper, but at
least it's under _MY_ control.
//Svein
Does anybody have experiences with ATEN IP8000 card?
I found it today
http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pcid=2006041110563001&psid=20060411131311002&pid=20080401180847001&layerid=subClass1
It is not cheap, but it seems as universal solution for any motherboard
with PCI slot.
"Host-side OS support - Windows 2000/2003/XP
/NT/VistaRedhat 7.1 and above; FreeBSD, Novell"
Miroslav Lachman
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