Yeah, pretty much all BMCs are accessible via SSH, including for serial console redirection. The only caveat is that the SSH console is sometimes slow as molasses (slower than the already-slow webGUIs that plague the traditional server ecosystem).
Rant time, the worst offender I’ve had the displeasure of using is IBM/Lenovo for the Haswell/Broadwell-EP line (x3… m5). The WebGUI is painfully slow, it takes minutes just to log in sometimes. And then the menu structure is such that it needs extra steps to do anything, so I hate using it.
Dell up to Gen 13 was slow, but nowhere near as slow - slower than Supermicro of the same vintage, but bearable. Menus were nicer, too. But with Gen 14/iDRAC 9 they really improved things and now the interface is probably the fastest around.
Hi,
If you or anyone still uses a Supermicro X9 motherboard, I urge you to try this docker container.
Works far better than the java console which became quite unusable over the years.
Back to the thread’s subject, I was planning on using some AMD Ryzen 9 59XX I already own to upgrade my 2 servers with TrueNAS and ESXi, then I saw the price of unregistered ECC… ouch. We’re talking 3x-4x the price of registered.
So now I don’t know what to do, skip ECC completely, buy a platform compatible with cheap registered ECC but way less powerful, or pay the premium for unregistered but have less RAM.
I’m a firm believer of buy once, cry once and profit. My servers generally have at least 10 years of service life (if not longer) and the extra stuff (iKVM, PCIe lanes, cheap RAM and way higher capacities, rock solid stability) you get from registered ECC systems (enterprise) are more than worth all the extra money over the years.
