On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:46:15PM -0400, Sonic wrote: > The IPMI is part of Dell's iDRAC stuff and the only thing I've found [...] > may be the iDRAC license level as well, anything above the "basic" > level, providing a limited feature set, requires purchasing a license
Eeew. We've got some HP gear that requires an extra cost license to make the remote kvm gui head work past the bootloader which is ridiculous (but technically, I don't think remote kvm is part of the base IPMI standard), but the IPMI SOL serial port??? That's just crazy. I've never used Dell and never will for servers; desktops/notebooks, sure, but servers? Nah. Sun gear was pretty good until Oracle killed them off, we used IBM for a while until they sold it off to Lenovo and policy wouldn't let us buy from a non-US company (like the gear itself doesn't come from China anyway). Right now we're using HP at my dayjob and it's working out ok. I pretty much use supermicro for personal gear and sidejobs, it's generally good stuff. At least my IPMI SOL port works :). Good luck :).
