What A Cluster

After seeing this being mentioned last year at HP Discover and a full double down by HP this year at Discover it’s great to see that it’s coming to life. Redfish isn’t just an HP thing, HP is one of the players in aiding in its development. Other promoters and supporters are Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Supermicro, VMware, AMI, Oracle, Fujitsu, Huawei, and Seagate. you may have already noticed that Cisco is somewhat absent from this supporting list. While I haven’t seen anything official I would start leaning towards Cisco is carefully hedging its bets on its own capabilities for its UCS line. Why would you want to provide a standardized management platform that could allow you to have HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Cisco gear in the same rack, room, or data center? We shall see where Cisco Goes.

Back to the tech, you can see it as a replacement as IPMI, to build a scale-out and standardized ways of managing and monitoring your hardware. By using REST anybody can really just pick up and run with it as REST has become so common place within IT. Here’s a link to the standard for your reading pleasure. Can’t wait to see it get implemented.

DMTF and Redfish