A port and interface for managing a node out of band. Each node needs three addresses and this is one of them; Foundation also works through it when imaging.
Also called Intelligent Platform Management Interface.
Read more: Nutanix docs
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains IPMI in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Foundation
Nutanix's own tool for building clusters, loading nodes first with AOS and a hypervisor that are supported together. Its three forms are the standalone VM, the app and the version in the CVM.
Related terms
- IP
Gives hosts their addresses at the network layer. On a Nutanix node, the CVM, hypervisor host and IPMI interface all require one.
- PXE
A standard for booting over the network. Foundation Central can bring bare-metal nodes into Phoenix this way, or through an ISO mounted over IPMI.
- vSphere DPM
Part of DRS that saves power by sending under-used hosts into standby and waking them (through Wake-on-LAN, iLO or IPMI) once more capacity is needed.