What’s ILO in Sun server

http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4600/

Hi Martin,

We’ve just ordered our first Sun server, we’re going to use it with VMWare to consolidate our wintel servers, (we looked at the DL585G2, but we got a better deal from our reseller on the Sun boxes).

A quick question, the wintel guys are used to HP ILOs, what’s the Sun equivalent?

Thanks

Andy

Excellent sir, congratulations on your new Sun server!  Very pleased for you and hope it works great with your virtualization project, good luck with it.

The ILO is referred to as the ILOM and should be fairly similar to the ILO in nature, the Sun site says:

Called ILOM, this separately powered controller monitors system and component status, supporting standard management standards (SNMP, IPMI, DMTF).

Lights out, remote visibility, full control

Remote management with full keyboard, mouse, video, storage (KVMS)
Remote media capability (floppy, CD)
Full DMTF CLI, a browser interface, IPMI 2.0 compliance for management and control
SNMP v1, v2c, v3 for system monitoring
The ability to monitor and report system and component status on all FRUs

If you check out http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/html/820-0280-10/ that’s the ILOM administrators guide, there’s a pdf available here: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Servers/x64_servers/x4600m2/index.html including the documentation for it.

If you find any secret tips let me know so we can spread the word.

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