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December 6th, 2021 11:00

Access iDRAC Remote Image from the Operating System

I can mount remote disk images to an iIDRAC9 ( ver 5 firmware ) and boot the server from them, but I cannot figure out how to access the image from the Linux operating system over ssh.

e.g.

  1. Connect remote image to iDRAC using the racadm remoteimage command.
  2. ssh to operating system the way Ansible would.
  3. mount the remote image to a local folder, for example, /mnt/remoteimage
  4. Access the files on the image.

I know that I can do thing using the virtual console, but that is a manual, interactive process, and I need an automated, scalable process that works with Linux and doesn't require Internet access.