ilom, you lom, we all lom

Big hats off to the folks at Sun who did the Integrated Lights Out Manager on the 4x00 Servers.

It's something we don't tout nearly enough.  Not even a good google link if you query Sun ilom.

We need to fix that.

But if you have a 4x00 series and haven't configured the ilom...

(WHACK)

That's me smacking you upside the head.  You never have to touch the server once racked.  Not even to load a CD (can do network mounted ISO's of DVD's and CD's...even floppies if need be).



Posted on: Nov 03, 2006

Posted by: ThinGuy

Category: Misc

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Yeah, it isn't a half bad effort - and that isn't only for the 4x00 series - x2100M2 and x2200M2 has something similar. I've got to admit that I really like the lom on the v20/v40z for daily use becuse everything can be done over ssh and having a real terminal rather than the java based thing is rather nice (copy&paste works ...).
Either way, it is details like these that keep me recommending Sun servers over the competition that may be cheaper to get, but a hell of a lot more hassle to manage (there's other advantages like blazing performance compared to similar specced whiteboxes and significant power savings, but that's a different story :)

Posted by Mads on November 04, 2006 at 01:40 AM PST #

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