Am 29.06.2011 um 22:26 schrieb Emmanuel Noobadmin: > On 6/30/11, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote: >> If it's a server that actually deserves that name, it should have >> IPMI >> on board. > > Problem is some of us work for budget constraints customers and define > server by purpose and not specifications. So very often they buy > servers based on budget and that it's good enough to run most > applications for X users. Unfortunately, very often I'm the one who > ends up managing these simply because our applications run on them. > I'd go for a power-switch then. Less logic. http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Computers-Networking-/58058/i.html?_nkw=remote+power+switch&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282 http://www.amazon.com/NP-0801D-Switchable-manufactured-Temperature-Monitoring/dp/B002WLQ6ZI >> You can buy add-on PCI-cards for OOB-management, though. > > Thanks for the information, although unless they are really cheap... Define "cheap". I live and work in 2011's 6th most expensive city of the world.... Virtualization is an option, but the trouble is: if the server is I/O- constrained anyway, virtualization won't help. Everything will just be even slower.