Hi, We ordered several R310s without DRAC cards because they are supposed to be inexpensive systems, and adding $300 to each server's cost adds an additional 25% to the total price. My main concern is the way that the BMC/IPMI interface works. It seems totally insane to me that there is no way to just assign one of the LOM nics to be the BMC/IPMI interface. Is there a technical reason why this isn't possible, or is it just something Dell did to sell more DRACs?
We have no need for more than 1 NIC in our servers, and since all 11th Gen poweredge servers come with 2 NICs, it seemed like a total no brainer to just use 1 NIC for the network and 1 NIC for the IPMI/BMC. That way they could be cabled to two completely different networks. We don't want the management NIC or traffic to be visible to the operating system for security reasons. thanks, -Drew
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