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Re:Making Facebook’s software infrastructure more energy eff... by wmf on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:28PM (#8154846)
Real servers can't be bought without IPMI and AFAIK the BMC cannot be turned off, so it's probably not worth worrying about BMC power if there's nothing you can do about it.
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Re:Making Facebook’s software infrastructure more energy eff... by thrownaway2424 on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:32PM (#8154865)
Sure, but as you're aware facebook, google, et al don't buy "real servers", they buy servers that actually meet their requirements. That's why "real vendors" like HP have missed the boat on selling millions of servers into the cloud.
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Re:Making Facebook’s software infrastructure more energy eff... by wmf on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:41PM (#8154907)
Speaking of Facebook specifically, the evolution is interesting. They replaced BMCs with the reboot-on-LAN hack but then their next motherboard version had BMCs again. It would be interesting to hear the story behind that.
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