> To be fair, these are meant for datacenter applications where it would be absolutely normal to run your fans at full speed all of the time.
Case fans for rack mount chassis are very powerful, and also can take up a significant amount of energy when running full-bore (not to mention the mechanical wear).
I haven't used a server chassis in over a decade where the fans were running at full beyond a few brief seconds at startup. I'm not sure if they used a four-pin header or some other mechanism, but fan speed control is a normal and expected feature in server hardware.
> Does it have HTML5 remote console, and basic component diagnostics? If so what else would you like?
IPMI specifically is meant to be a standardized remote management interface. It (mostly) works for basic things, but more advanced functionality is hit-or-miss, or absent entirely, leaving you at the mercy of proprietary tools. Redfish is supposed to be better, although I personally haven't used it.
Web interfaces can be hit-or-miss in terms of functionality and UX. Additionally, I've often found these web interfaces to be unstable -- either being very slow or not loading at all, to certain features of the UI not loading data or hanging the interface.
> and also can take up a significant amount of energy when running full-bore (not to mention the mechanical wear).
In datacenters, colocation datacenters like Digital Realty, you often pay a set amount per month for power out of a rack. Doesn't matter if you use 1kWh or 3000kWh, you paid $X for electricity for each of Y number of server racks for the billing period. So this is another case where their ideal customer just frankly doesn't care how much electricity the fans consume. Supermicro just doesn't care about homelabbers because that's not the people they tend to do business with. Datacenters buy Supermicro servers and sell their old ones on Craigslist to homelabbers.
> It (mostly) works for basic things, but more advanced functionality is hit-or-miss, or absent entirely, leaving you at the mercy of proprietary tools.
You didn't really say anything that you're missing from IPMI specifically here. I was really looking for like a specific feature that you found missing, because customers often think they want more when something is "simple" but don't really even have a use case for more. And even more often, there are times where the desired solution a customer is looking for isn't the best solution.
I don’t at all see how you’re getting a take-away that it completely removes it as an option. And I work at a company of ~60 that hosts Supermicro servers on prem. We just don’t run them like underneath our desks where it sounds like you’re expecting them to go.
Case fans for rack mount chassis are very powerful, and also can take up a significant amount of energy when running full-bore (not to mention the mechanical wear).
I haven't used a server chassis in over a decade where the fans were running at full beyond a few brief seconds at startup. I'm not sure if they used a four-pin header or some other mechanism, but fan speed control is a normal and expected feature in server hardware.
> Does it have HTML5 remote console, and basic component diagnostics? If so what else would you like?
IPMI specifically is meant to be a standardized remote management interface. It (mostly) works for basic things, but more advanced functionality is hit-or-miss, or absent entirely, leaving you at the mercy of proprietary tools. Redfish is supposed to be better, although I personally haven't used it.
Web interfaces can be hit-or-miss in terms of functionality and UX. Additionally, I've often found these web interfaces to be unstable -- either being very slow or not loading at all, to certain features of the UI not loading data or hanging the interface.