Hello, 

We had a discussion with baremetal-sig in PTG yesterday(23rd Oct 2023).  Below are some of the ironic ilo driver features discussed and the summary of our understanding:

- In-band and OOB RAID configuration and disk erase : 

·       Cleaning steps are invoked via operator-written scripts for RAID, disk erase etc. The OS commands are directly invoked in the scripts for these tasks. 

·       We are not clear if iLO driver inband RAID feature is used or not. 

·       OOB RAID configuration and disk-erase is not used. 

- Out-of-Band Inspection: 

·       We are not clear if OOB inspection is  used or not.

·       LLDP data based inventory is most desired. Not all BMCs provide this data today.

·       Inspection is also used for getting the DHCP information especially,  hostname.

- UEFI HTTPS boot:

·       UEFI HTTPS boot feature of ilo driver is not used. 

·       vMedia is the preferred way of deploy in the field. 

·       UEFI HTTP deploy is proposed this cycle in redfish driver.

·       Some customers use PXE boot.

- Smart Update Manager (SUM)-based firmware update:

·       Firmware update feature of ilo drivers is not used, rather redfish driver is used.

Above is our understanding from the discussion in the baremetal-sig operator in PTG. Please correct/clarify our understanding.

Basically, we are trying to figure out if any of the following ilo driver features are used :

1. In-band and out-of-band RAID configuration 
2. In-band and out-of-band diskerase 
3. UEFI-HTTPS boot
4. One button secure erase
5. Smart Update Manager (SUM)-based firmware update
6. Updating security parameters as manual cleaning step
7. GPU hardware inspection

We like to also know if proliantutils is used separately as a hardware manager or independently for any of the OOB/Inband features.

Regards

Nisha