On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > Of course, > if you are running windows and need a KVM over IP, this doesn't help, > but serial consoles are /vastly superior/ for linux use.
> external serial consoles, in my experience both personally and > working on Yahoo's search cluster, are much more reliable than > both the HP ILO and the dell DRAC. (the hp ILO is marginally > better than the dell DRAC, but it is still garbage compared to > an external serial console.) Sorry to re-open a thread that's sorta dead, but I just saw this, and couldn't let it go unaddressed. As soon as you can do virtual-media to mount a firmware CD, or an install CD, or a remote thumbdrive, using only the serial-console, let me know. But there's a whole mess of reasons why ILO/DRAC are /vastly superior/ to just a serial redirection of the console. Cheers, D
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