Henry Vail 写道: > Thanks for the suggestion, but if referring to Intel's Node Manager, it > appears to require the BIOS support these servers lack.
Yes, it is necessary. And some drivers and tools for ipmi support are necessary, too. > > -----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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
