Built a nice little PiKVM and deployed it in my NAS. The NAS is heavy and placed in a dark half-height place under the stairs so it’s awkward when things go wrong and you need hardware access.

The built KVM

For those that don’t know what PiKVM is: https://pikvm.org/

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    Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to get a motherboard with IPMI/BMC? Last I looked, the prebuilt PiKVMs were quite expensive.

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      Would’ve loved to gotten one of those. But the power consumption of a Xeon is a bit higher than I’d like. This was a nice to have, not need to. It was a Christmas gift from my wife 🥰

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        Aww, nice gift!

        I’m using a workstation board in my server. Asus Pro WS W680M-ACE SE along with a Core i5-13500. Intel support ECC for consumer CPUs but only when using workstation motherboards :/. The IPMI on this board works well though.

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      Don’t have some Intel CPUs Intel vPro making you also able to control the PC in a LVM manner?
      I havent tried it yet but my (so far) research suggests its possible and it would be a useful feature for those repurposing old workstation pcs as servers.

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        I think so, but I don’t have any vPro capable CPUs so I haven’t been able to try it.

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          I think some other CPU/MBs also have this feature.
          But I would giess they are only implemented in business scopes like the Pro/EliteDesk line from HP and the other SIs equivalent.

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      Maybe, but power consumption can get steep with some server boards/chassis which might tip the balance over time.