Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:12:36 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> Cc: FreeBSD-ISP List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: experience with dell DRAC 4? Message-ID: <4418E5B4.1010903@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz> References: <20060316145215.Y18985@a2.scoop.co.nz>
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Andrew McNaughton wrote: > > Does anyone have experience of Dell's remote access card, the DRAC 4? > (as sold for the dell poweredge 850 I'm looking at). > > Dell suggests that it's possible, at least for windows, to install an > operating system remotely via one of these cards. If that were > possible with FreeBSD, it would be very useful for me for deploying > remote servers. > > Short of that, out of band serial access for remote management of > servers is the base criteria I'm looking for, and I'd be interested in > any feedback on how the dell card performs, and any issues relating to > FreeBSD > compatibility. > > If there's competing products I should be aware of that might also be > useful information. I use them in all our servers (1850s, 2850s), and they work very well. The latest FreeBSD-6.1-BETA4 I believe detects the DRAC as a usb keyboard/mouse, and also sees the virtual CD-ROM, however I have not used it for an install yet. I have some spare 2850's that I could test this out on though if you were interested. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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