News Release from: OSA Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 July 2003
Opteron systems embrace IPMI firmware
IPMI products from OSA Technologies are shipping pre-integrated into AMD Opteron platforms being offered through AMD's Validated Server Programme (VSP).
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IPMI products from OSA Technologies are shipping pre-integrated into AMD Opteron platforms being offered through AMD's Validated Server Programme (VSP). Through the VSP, Celestica, a world leader in the delivery of electronics manufacturing services (EMS), is integrating OSA IPMI firmware in its server programme featuring AMD technology. This provides customers with "last mile" management software offering remote management, monitoring, diagnostics and recovery at different phases of a system lifecycle: pre-boot, OS-present, and OS-unresponsive.
By leveraging OSA's existing IPMI building blocks and market relationships, solution providers, VARs and SIs can now deliver pre-integrated, ready-to-use server management software for the VSP platforms, 4U/4P A8440 and the 1U/2P A2210.
OSA is providing Celestica with IPMI firmware and its latest IPMI drivers for Linux.
Finally, OSA Server Manager v3.0, supporting Windows 2003 and Linux, is also provided.
Together, these IPMI building blocks can be used to brand and package a complete "top-to-bottom" IPMI-enabled server management software solution, supporting new business opportunities like remote server monitoring and management services.
"Adding IPMI manageability can help to enhance the appeal of a server platform", commented Jeffrey Hewitt, Principal Analyst for Servers Worldwide at Gartner Dataquest.
"By providing the whitebox channel with the building blocks offered through this arrangement, vendors can create differentiated platform management solutions that let them meet important manageability needs of customers".
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) defines a common interface to how vendors monitor their system hardware and sensors (temperature, voltage, fan etc), control system components (power, blades etc), log important system events (chassis intrusion, CPU performance etc), to allow administrators to remotely manage and recover failed systems.
IPMI standardises the way embedded management subsystems communicate with systems such as, the CPU, other embedded management subsystems and remote management applications.
IPMI v1.5 recently added the ability to access system information over a LAN even without the OS being present - providing true, "last mile" manageability.
IPMI also complements and extends other management standards like CIM, SNMP, WMI, SMBIOS and ASF to support "last mile" manageability.
Since 1998, more than 150 vendors have adopted IPMI.
This industry-wide support together with IPMI's capabilities make it an ideal fit for data centres, local campuses and distributed organisations - easing the way IT manages remote servers, blades and other network-attached devices.
OSA's IPMI firmware and software solutions, available worldwide, are designed to be easily integrated into system vendors' products.
In addition to supporting IPMI mandatory and optional features, products can also be tailored to meet individual customer needs for differentiation.
OSA software solutions support Windows and Linux platforms.
"The OSA IPMI solution will provide our shared customers a new level of system manageability across 32 and 64bit platforms for servers and workstations based on AMD Opteron processors", said Ben Williams, AMD's Director of the Server/Workstation Business Segment, Microprocessor Business Group.
"By being able to monitor systems across the network IT customers can increase reliability and decrease downtime".
Using the industry-wide IPMI Conformance Test Suite (ICTS), OSA also ensures IPMI compliance across the entire ecosystem of partners it works with, from silicon vendors to board and system manufacturers.
The company is working closely with leading CPU, chipset, and gigabit Ethernet vendors to support their next generation silicon and reference platforms with IPMI firmware.
With OSA providing the expert IPMI software and firmware capabilities, silicon vendors, board manufacturers, device and server manufacturers can focus on their core competencies.
"Our new channels provide proof of the momentum behind IPMI", said Mark Lee, CEO and President of OSA.
"By enabling the white box channel, OSA and Celestica are helping to drive the standardisation of IPMI in servers, blades, telecom, networking, and storage industries.
The standard manageability that IPMI provides helps ensure IT and data centres realise a reduction in TCO, and helps fulfil the promise of virtualisation and automation".
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