I have found the 8GB cards on eBay for $40-60, but I can't find any conclusive text indicating what the card is for. It also gives me an SD card slot, in which I can put a Dell vFlash card of 4, 8 or 16GB (possibly 32GB as well), that I have no idea what I would use for.
This gives me all I need to remotely administer the server on BIOS level, which is what I want. Now, I did look on eBay, and found a seller in Taiwan (red flag) that offers an iDRAC8 Enterprise pack consisting of an iDRAC8 add-in card PLUS Enterprise license, for US$195. I have been told that getting the card from Dell is nigh impossible if not ordered with the server, and that the licenses accompany the card as they are sort of married - one doesn't work without the other, and as such it seems difficult to get a standalone license if I should happen across a standalone card. Hence, the Enterprise license is required. web based monitoring of the server and no KVM. The card alone doesn't do anything more than the Express license allows, i.e. The card I need seems to have a service tag of X99HC, which fits a number of Dell servers, including the T430. I tried to speak to a sales droid at Dell Norway, but he either wasn't interested in helping me or didn't understand my question, so maybe someone here is able to assist me. I would like to have the KVM capabilities enabled, and to do that it seems I have to buy the add-in card and an Enterprise license.
I have a Dell PowerEdge T430 tower server that came with iDRAC8 Express.
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