[Info-vax] RX2800 i4 iLO 3 firmware

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-06-23 15:17:08 +0000, Dave Froble said:

> On 6/23/2021 10:43 AM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> 
>> HPe certainly makes this more difficult than it should be.

It's long been difficult to find stuff at DEC, Compaq, HP, and HPE. At 
IBM and Dell too, for that matter. That's seemingly been a hallmark of 
enterprise computing. Simple is hard. Clarity is hard.

> HPe doesn't care about you, just your money ...

There are alternatives for ~all IT hardware vendors. Among others, 
SuperMicro for servers, Brother for printers, and Synology for servers 
and NAS.

The Synology packages have replaced a number of purpose-dedicated local 
servers: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages

OpenVMS V9.2 is going to shuffle a whole lot of longstanding 
assumptions around hardware, too. The x86-64 upgrade cycle tends to be 
much shorter—three to five years—than that of Alpha or Itanium servers. 
And hypervisor guest support means we'll be seeing massively overloaded 
OpenVMS guests co-resident on too little hardware with ongoing efforts 
toward server constipation, err, toward server consolidation.


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