Re: Blast from the past
Because it's a pain in most cases? VGA over IP has been good for a decade. Serial works alright but still often painful to use. I remember the last time i had serious serial console use a decade ago, in servers with 3ware raid cards. Everything worked fine outside of the 3ware raid bios.
HP servers automatically detect serial and switch to CLI (or they did last time I ran serial on them years ago). But setting options via CLI took much longer than using the ANSI GUI. Last I tried again yeara ago installing esxi interactively via serial not possible either.
So nice option to have but will take HP iLO advanced over serial in a heatbeat. I've even just for shits and giggles installed esxi 5
5.5 via ISO from my phone at a bar using xenapp, iLO advanced and remote desktop.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
