Server competitive feature landscape - management

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Feature Dell EMC HPE Huawei Lenovo Cisco Supermicro

iDRAC9 ProLiant Gen10 FusionServer V5 ThinkSystem UCS M5 SuperServer X11

Silicon Root of Trust

Digitally signed firmware updates

Real time firmware security scanning

4.10; AMD
FIPs/Common Criteria Compliance only

SE Linux based BMC

System Lockdown

UEFI secure boot with custom certificates

Rapid OS Recovery

Automatic BIOS recovery

Secure Access via front port (iDRAC Direct)

Dynamically enabled USB ports

Key Management (Drives)

System Erase (instant secure erase, drives)

Telemetry Streaming
4.00;DC
Automatic SSL Certificate Management license
4.00;DC
Advanced Thermal Manage license
4.00;DC
2 Factor Authentication via email license
4.00;ENT/
GPU, SFP IO inventory & statistics DC license
4.00;DC
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iDRAC9 Competitive Comparison – Automation & Remote Management

Features Dell HPE Cisco Lenovo Supermicro Huawei Inspur
- 100% Agent-free
- Power/Thermals
- OOB Performance Mon.
Monitoring - Redfish Eventing
- SNMP v3
- Telemetry Streaming
✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
- Connection View

Update & Configure

- Redfish support
- SCP with OS provisioning
Automation - BMC & BIOS

Support
- RAID
- NICs/LOMs ✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
- “Zero Touch” prov.
- Automatic updates

- HTML5 virtual console &

vMedia
- Virtual console Chat
Remote
Management
- Virtual Collaboration
- Group Manager
- Virtual Clipboard
✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
- Thermal Manage

- Redfish
API & Dev - IPMI
Tools & Docs - OEM CLI
- WSMAN
✔ ✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
- Quick Sync Mobile Mgmt.
- iDRAC Direct Mgmt. Port
At the server
Mgmt.
- LCD Panel upsell
- VGA front access
- SCP upload to iDRAC
✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✔
Phone Home, SAC Report,
Embedded
Support
Easy Restore, Part Replace.
✔✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘
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PowerEdge Security Leads the Pack!

Feature Dell EMC HPE Lenovo Cisco Supermicro
PowerEdge 14G ProLiant Gen10 ThinkSystem UCS M5 SuperServer X11

Silicon Root of Trust ✔✔ ✔✔ ✘ ✘ ✘

Digitally signed secure firmware updates ✔✔ ✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
End-2-End Crypto-verified Boot ✔✔ ✔✔ ✘ ✘ ✘
Write Protection of FW for subsystems ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatic BIOS & Firmware Recovery ✔✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Simple 2-Factor Authentication ✔✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Chassis Intrusion Detection ✔ (std.) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✘
Automatic SSL Certificate Enrollment ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
System Erase (instant crypto-erase) ✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
Key Management (Enterprise & Local) ✔✔ ✔✔ ✔ ✔ ✘
System Drift Detection ✔✔ ✔ ✘ ✔ ✘
System Lockdown ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘

Virtual AC Cycle ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Dynamically enabled USB ports ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
Rapid OS Recovery ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘
BIOS Live Scan ✔ ✔ ✘ ✘ ✘

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