hardware for home use large storage

[Niki Denev]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Peter C. Lai <peter at simons-rock.edu> wrote:
> On 2010-02-09 05:32:02PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>> One similar product that does seem to work well is iLO, available on
>>> HP/Compaq hardware.
>>
>> I've heard great things about that.  It seems like a much better design -
>> it's essentially a small server that is independent from the main host. Has
>> it's own LAN and serial ports as well.
>>
>> Charles
>
> Dell PowerEdge Remote Access (DRAC) cards also provided this as well,
> and for a while there, you could actually VNC into them. But HP offers iLO
> for no extra charge or discount upon removal (DRACs are worth about $250)
> and has become such a prominent "must-have" datacenter feature that the
> "iLO" term is beginning to become genericized for web-accessible and virtual
> disc-capable onboard out-of-band IP-console management.
>
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I thought that their VNC implementation is non-standard, and
I wasn't able to VPN into them, at least on the latest Core i7 models.