au contraire, I think they know exactly what they're doing,
They just don't GAF for anything that isn't extracting short term value from Vmware's tepid corpse
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1200/75, 1200, 9600 HST, 14.4k HST
Ahh, the joys of blowing a few hundred quid downloading os/2 warp from rusty and edies one weekend over an old USR HST modem. It was legit work too, we were looking at "ahem" stable multitasking oses to use for our software.
The beancounters were not amused :D They would have been even less amused if I'd broken the old v22 hayes out and used that !
Ahh, bloody decservers had a nasty habit of doing just that on reboot.
A bit of a ball-ache when used as terminal servers for a rack of U60s which would immediately lock up unless you remembered to disconnect them first. Of course then you had the problem of remembering to reconnect them all again afterwards, or be faced with a dead console when you really Really REALLY needed one !
They are pretty awesome.
I've had it for approx 14 months now and apart from a sluggish period towards the end of the first year it's been up around >900Mb bidirectionally for a 1Gb service. It does sting a bit pricewise after the honeymoon period is up, but once you've slurped a distro iso in seconds it's bloody hard to give it up :)
At the moment I'm getting 946Mb down, 784Mb up and sub 1ms ping to the beeb news site.
Really ! And how do you propose powering up a shutdown server via ssh/command line ??
You can use paired servers to act as serial consoles for each other (assuming your hardware still has serial ports), but that won't help you if the target server isn't running an O/S in the first place.
Fully functioned DRAC/ILOs ? Just say YES, especially if in a remote DC !!