[gpfsug-discuss] DSS-G sharing IPMI network

[Jonathan Buzzard]

So it says this in the documentation

  In DSS-G, the recommendation is to share the IPMI and administrative
  LAN interfaces on the same Ethernet port of the DSS server, rather than
  using the dedicated network connector of the XCC for IPMI.

The question is what is the reasoning behind this? I want that 
management interface strictly separated from my "normal" network. What 
is the value of having it "shared" rather than separate? Noting that we 
have never used the OCP/LOM card on our DSS-G servers for anything other 
than provisioning and then immediately unconfigured then and relied on 
the "HPC" network for everything.

Unhelpfully the servers have come configured from Lenovo in dedicated 
mode and I cannot see anything in the XCC to change it. Does it require 
booting into BIOS setup to change?


JAB.

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