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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by dahfizz on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:40PM (#20690558)
> they come with IPMI... which is exactly what iLO, DRAC, etc., is

iLO / iDRAC implement IPMI, but they are not the same thing. iLO and iDRAC provide web interfaces, remote iso mounting, granular boot control, remote vga, etc. There's a lot of useful features not available in a "standard" IPMI implementation.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by herpderperator on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:31PM (#20691300)
You are confusing IPMI 1.0 with IPMI 2.0.

> Systems compliant with IPMI version 2.0 can also communicate via serial over LAN, whereby serial console output can be remotely viewed over the LAN. Systems implementing IPMI 2.0 typically also include KVM over IP, remote virtual media and out-of-band embedded web-server interface functionality, although strictly speaking, these lie outside of the scope of the IPMI interface standard. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by mopsi on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:08PM (#20691175)
I used to have X9SCM-F, and its implementation also had a web interface, remote ISO mounting and remote VGA.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by herpderperator on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:29PM (#20691287)
Agreed; I also have X9SCM-F, and was able to do all that (which I already specified in my parent comment.)
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by parliament32 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:52PM (#20698072)
IPMI does all of that and hundreds of more features. And it's licence-free.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/...

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by dahfizz on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:50PM (#20700347)
Again, IPMI is a standard which includes basically none of these features.

The BMC that vendors use implement IPMI and also usually provide these features.

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