[MoosePirate]

How are you rebooting your cattle though if not via the BMC?

[tbyehl]

More importantly, how do those cattle become cattle in the first place without BMC? How do you turn them into another breed of cattle without BMC?

Not that it can't be done... but that's a system dependent on the hardware doing the right thing, as opposed to a system that can tell the hardware what to do every step of the way.

[gpapilion]

There are other solutions, like network pdus. It’s different but does the same job.

[tedivm]

I'm also curious how they're reimaging those machines.

[ipmifatwa]

What's wrong with PXE boot?