On hp proliant gen8 servers with management and ilo on same port, with the server off the ports show up as 100mbps.
Jimmy Hess <mysi...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Jamie Bowden <ja...@photon.com> wrote: > >> > From: Saku Ytti [mailto:s...@ytti.fi] >> Considering that Dell and HP at least are shipping brand new hardware >with >> IPMI/BMC/iLO/whatever management ports that can only speak 100mbit >when >> every other Ethernet interface in the box at least gigabit, having a >useful >> way to talk to that port without having to keep separate switching >hardware >> around would be nice. I'm not holding my breath, but you know, along >with >> a pony, this would be nice. >> > >Eh? That may have been the case a few years ago, but HP ILO4 and >iDRAC7 specifically list 10/100/1000 even when using in dedicated >port >mode. > >And even in prior versions, you could have the port linking up at >1Gbps, >by operating the management in Shared port mode (Sharing the >management >with the server's Eth0). > >I expect over time: support for linking up at 10/100 will get rarer >and >much more expensive. > > >The niche status a 10/100 media converter as an SFP would have if >produced > is likely to mean it would retail at $2000+ per port device. > > >It probably just makes more sense to go find an old obsolete top of >rack >switch, like a Cat3750 to get the small fraction of legacy copper >ports >required for out of band network and server management, which: by the >way, should be part of a separate switching infrastructure anyways, >to >increase the chance it stays operational and useful for >troubleshooting, in >the event the production network experiences outage or has other issues >requiring diagnosis. > > > >> Jamie > >-- >-JH -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
