Technical Product Specification

Intel® Remote Management Module IntelP®P Remote Management Module Overview
2. Intel
®
Remote Management Module Overview
The Intel
®
Remote Management Module (Intel
®
RMM) is a 2.25-inch x 2.75-inch printed circuit
board. When installed in the Intel
®
RMM connector on an Intel
®
server board, it provides an
increased level of manageability over the basic server management available to the server
board.
The Intel
®
RMM is the second generation of embedded remote server management cards for
Intel
®
server boards. Designed to work with the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), this
small form-factor mezzanine card enables graphical server control from virtually anywhere, at
anytime.
2.1 Intel® Remote Management Module - Virtual Server Control
The Intel
®
RMM provides Virtual Server Control. This control includes Keyboard/Video/Mouse
(KVM) redirection over Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) using an
Ethernet network port dedicated for remote management.
The keyboard, video, and mouse of the remote server under control are available to the
administrator from any network location, regardless of the state of the server (OS loading,
running, or not responding (blue screen), Pre-OS bios boot and setup, etcetera.). The dedicated
Ethernet controller is Out Of Band (OOB). In other words, it runs separately from the OS and the
BIOS. This separation allows it to operate continuously, thus supporting 24 X 7 management of
the system. The management traffic does not share network bandwidth with the host system
software.
2.2 Intel® Remote Management Module - Virtual Media
The Intel
®
RMM also provides Virtual Media, which is USB remote storage redirection over
TCP/IP using the dedicated LAN interface. Intel
®
RMM - Virtual Media is used by administrators
to mount IDE or USB CD/DVD-ROM drives or ISO images, floppy or USB “thumb” drives, that
are physically local to the administrator’s client computer, to the remote server under control.
Once mounted, the media that is remote to the server appears local to the server. This allows
administrators to install software or drivers on, or boot the server from the remote media.
Intel
®
RMM - Virtual Media can be used to complete the following actions:
 Install a new operating system on a target server
 Install an operating system upgrade on a target server
 Repair damaged operating system installs
The ability to recover from a system hard drive crash to a known good state is also provided by
the combination of Intel
®
RMM - Virtual Media and Intel
®
RMM - Virtual Server Control. The
administrator may also write to the Intel
®
RMM - Virtual Media.
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