Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 23:49:37 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ? Message-ID: <20060624234317.D1114@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20060625021254.GB57553@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20060624215742.N1114@ganymede.hub.org> <20060625021254.GB57553@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, David Kelly wrote: > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:03:42PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> I'm currently weighing options ... my last two servers were HP >> Proliant, and I *really* like them, but I might have a line on a >> supplier in Panama that deals in Dell Servers and not HP ... >> >> Looking at Dell's web site, the PowerEdge has an optional "Remote >> Access Controller" that will it *sounds* like will give me similar >> functionality as HPs iLO ... > > Am not familiar with either, but are you sure this is hardware and not > Windows specific software? I'm not 100% certain, after reading the following 'article' about it from 2002, but my feel is that the only "requirement" is that I run Windows IE to access the interface ... I know with iLO, there is nothing OS related that I have to install to make use of it, but I'm not certain with DRAC ... http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/ps2q02_bell?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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