Re: KVM question - skip this technology entirely

["Ward Vandewege" <user=150@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 03:12:06AM -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: 
> On May 12, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Ward Vandewege wrote: 
>> I wasted a royal amount of time with IPMI on a project with 96 or so 
>> supermicro servers. More often than not the IPMI card was not reachable 
>> when 
>> it was needed. Oh - yeah, when your IPMI card is crashed, the only 
>> reliable 
>> way to recover it is to cut all power to the entire machine - unplug the 
>> cable. 
> 
> The SuperMicro IPMI cards have been getting better over the last ~12 
> months.