Concept Guide

7 Side-by-side comparison of the features of Dell EMC iDRAC9 and iDRAC8
Feature
iDRAC8
Basic
iDRAC9
Basic
iDRAC8
Express
iDRAC9
Express
iDRAC8
Express
for
Blades
iDRAC9
Express
for Blades
iDRAC8
Enterprise
iDRAC9
Enterprise
Virtual Flash partitions
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2,3


2,3

Group Manager


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

HTTP / HTTPS support
along with NFS/CIFS




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Power & Thermal
Real-time power meter






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Power thresholds & alerts
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

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


Real-time power graphing
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Historical power counters


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Power capping


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
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Power Center integration


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
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Temperature monitoring

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Temperature graphing


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Health Monitoring
Full agent-free monitoring

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
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

Predictive failure
monitoring



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
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SNMPv1, v2, and v3 (traps
and gets)

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Email Alerting




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
Configurable thresholds








Fan monitoring








Power Supply monitoring








Memory monitoring






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
CPU monitoring

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
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RAID monitoring
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


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
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NIC monitoring

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
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
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HD monitoring (enclosure)





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Out of Band Performance
Monitoring







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Alerts for excessive SSD
wear








Customizable settings for
Exhaust Temperature





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

Update
Remote agent-free update
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Embedded update tools
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