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The Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC) is an out-of-band management platform on certain Dell servers. The platform may be provided on a separate expansion card , or integrated into the main board ; when integrated, the platform is referred to as iDRAC .
The first digit after the letter indicates the class of the system, with 1–5 defaulting to iDRAC Basic and 6–9 defaulting to iDRAC Express. The second digit indicates the generation, with 0 for 10th generation, 1 for 11th generation and so on. The third digit indicates the number of CPU sockets, 1 for one socket and 2 for two sockets.
Devices like Dell DRAC also have a slot for a memory card where an administrator may keep server-related information independently from the main hard drive. The remote system can be accessed either through an SSH command-line interface, specialized client software, or through various web-browser-based solutions. [4]
The iDRAC on a blade-server works in the same way as an iDRAC card on a rack or tower-server: there is a special iDRAC network to get access to the iDRAC function. In rack or tower-servers a dedicated iDRAC Ethernet interface connects to a management LAN.
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The IDRAC 6, and most likely the IDRAC 7 are VxWorks QNX Linux with a U-Boot bootloader running on what appears to be an ARM SOC or simular inside the server. Anyone who would like to verify this, simply download the firmware image for the IDRAC 6 version 2.90, and then load the file in a hex editor and scroll down near the bottom of the file.
Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals including printers and webcams among other products and services. Dell is based in Round Rock, Texas.
Using a standardized interface and protocol allows systems-management software based on IPMI to manage multiple, disparate servers. As a message-based, hardware-level interface specification, IPMI operates independently of the operating system (OS) to allow administrators to manage a system remotely in the absence of an operating system or of the system management software.