Thanks for the suggestion, but if referring to Intel's Node Manager, it appears to require the BIOS support these servers lack.
-----Original Message----- >From: chen gong <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 27, 2009 10:53 PM >To: Henry Vail <[email protected]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Discuss] WoL ACPI alternative > >Henry Vail 写道: >> Hello, >> >> I am challenged with nearly 100 proprietary servers that I need to remotely >> power control in a netboot environment. The goal is to have these servers >> in a powered-off (or minimally powered) state when not actively in use, and >> automate power-on to network boot into a workload OS on demand. These >> servers are directly powered in a way that I cannot mechanically control. >> They are equipped with Intel 82757 LOM NICs, but unfortunately do not have >> BIOS support for Wake-on-LAN (and because they are LOM, I cannot update them >> with the Intel Boot Agent). They do appear to support ACPI, so I hope there >> is a way to leverage this to simulate a WoL capability. >> >> My thoughts are to place the server into an idle state by network-booting a >> very lightweight OS (DSL, NDSL, PuppyLinux, etc) then suspending it into >> ACPI S3 or S4 to minimize power draw. On demand, we would need to "wake up" >> the server just enough to force it to reboot -- at which point it would be >> automated to network boot into a different OS to support the workload >> required, so full recovery from these states may not be necessary. >> >> Is anyone here aware of any existing work along these lines, have any >> suggestions, or can offer other alternatives? >> >> thank you! >> Henry >> >Why not trying to use Node Manager to do that ? _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
