From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 3:54 PM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: R310 BMC woes
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, ---------- I hate replying to my own messages but I was nudged in the direction to learn that if you disable the LOM in the BIOS settings that the NICs won't show up in the OS but they will still work for management/IPMI. The problem becomes then that you cannot only disable a single LOM, you must enable both or none. Does anyone know if this is a limitation of the hardware or an oversight by whoever does the BIOS? thanks, -Drew
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