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What is the difference between iDRAC, IPMI, and ILO

iDRAC

Typically, proprietary management solutions such as those we see in this text provide greater integration with the hardware and often have better features (monitoring, logging, access) than a generic IPMI implementation.

These are all forms of out-of-band management. IPMI is a standard.
– iDRAC is a proprietary offering from Dell.
– ILO is the HP ProLiant variant.
– ILOM for Sun/Oracle.

Sometimes, you may hear the terms used interchangeably(Server Management Technologies Comparison).

The proprietary lights-out management solutions provide more integration with the hardware and often time have nicer features (monitoring, logging, access) than a generic IPMI implementation.

I hope you found this blog post on Server Management Technologies Comparison helpful. Please let me know in the comment session if you have any questions.

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