On Dec 12, 2013, at 2:24, "Paul B. Henson" <hen...@acm.org> wrote:
>> From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolow...@joyent.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:01 AM >> >> My perspective on this is that being able to upgrade firmware over the >> LAN interface is an essential manageability feature. > > I don't know if I want to call them "higher end", or "brand name", but for > the most part all of my servers from Sun or IBM have had this functionality, > other than occasionally needing to boot an ISO image to update RAID > controller firmware. The SOL included in iDRAC7 (with or without the Enterprise license) lets you configure BIOS settings with an XML file on an NFS share: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2013/01/04/idrac7-now-support-configuring-server-idrac-bios-perc-and-nic-using-xml-file-and-racadm.aspx > >> What's even more obnoxious is that it's usually impossible to preserve >> settings across a firmware upgrade, and that there's generally no way to >> export or import settings or set them noninteractively. > > Yah, BIOS sucks :(. > >> Very much appreciate everyone out there fighting the good fight on this >> stuff. When you win, we all win! > > I think you guys have more clout with at least supermicro than most if not > everybody else on this list ;), maybe you could give your sales rep a good > smack about the ridiculousness of trying to nickel and dime customers for > this IPMI feature :).
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