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if i buy a motherboard with ipmi, i don't need to get a GPU, right? (feddit.it)
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Sorry, I'm not very used with server stuff, if I buy an Intel CPU without an integrated GPU like most Xeon, then I wouldn't have enough pcie lanes for a GPU because all is taken for nvme drives

Specifically, the motherboard ipmi is powered by aspeed ast2500

If I understood right, that chip will act as a 2d basic graphics card that's enough to see what happens that day the server is unresponsive

I don't plan to connect a monitor, it's just that I'm scared if I break truenas and I can't connect via ssh, then I could still see the local screen from the management Page on the browser

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[–] krasny 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes,I manage some servers with this config and it should work very well.

The only problem is that some old ipmis (and some new) use Java web start (.jnlp files) for the remote control feature and that is being phase out, so in some cases I have to use a vm with an old Java version to connect. Modern ipmis have also html5 kvm which is much more useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm looking at you IBM/Lenovo

[–] krasny 1 points 1 year ago

And supermicro, gigabyte...

Supermicro new licensing scheme for new platforms requires a special license to mount media on the html5 kvm, so you must use the annoying Java version if you need that or don't want to pay a 200$ extra feature unlock.

Also in that case I only was able to run it with the supermicro utility for Linux, which includes its own Java distro.