Intel® Server Board S1200V3RP TPS Advanced Management Feature Support (RMM4)
Revision 1.2
Once mounted, the remote device appears just like a local device to the server, allowing system
administrators or users to install software (including operating systems), copy files, update BIOS,
and so on, or boot the server from this device.
The following capabilities are supported:
The operation of remotely mounted devices is independent of the local devices on the
server. Both remote and local devices are useable in parallel.
Either IDE (CD-ROM, floppy) or USB devices can be mounted as a remote device to the
server.
It is possible to boot all supported operating systems from the remotely mounted device
and to boot from disk IMAGE (*.IMG) and CD-ROM or DVD-ROM ISO files. See the
Tested/supported Operating System List for more information.
Media redirection supports redirection for both a virtual CD device and a virtual
Floppy/USB device concurrently. The CD device may be either a local CD drive or else
an ISO image file; the Floppy/USB device may be a local Floppy drive, a local USB
device, or a disk image file.
The media redirection feature supports multiple encryption algorithms, including RC4
and AES. The actual algorithm that is used is negotiated with the client based on the
client’s capabilities.
A remote media session is maintained even when the server is powered-off (in standby
mode). No restart of the remote media session is required during a server reset or power
on/off. A BMC reset (for example, due to a BMC reset after BMC FW update) requires
the session to be re-established
The mounted device is visible to (and useable by) managed system’s OS and BIOS in
both pre-boot and post-boot states.
The mounted device shows up in the BIOS boot order and it is possible to change the
BIOS boot order to boot from this remote device.
It is possible to install an operating system on a bare metal server (no OS present) using
the remotely mounted device. This may also require the use of KVM-r to configure the
OS during install.
USB storage devices appear as floppy disks over media redirection. This allows for the
installation of device drivers during OS installation.
If either a virtual IDE or virtual floppy device is remotely attached during system boot, both the
virtual IDE and virtual floppy are presented as bootable devices. It is not possible to present
only a single-mounted device type to the system BIOS.
7.2.1 Availability
The default inactivity timeout is 30 minutes and is not user-configurable. Media redirection
sessions persist across system reset but not across an AC power loss or BMC reset.
7.2.2 Network Port Usage
The KVM and media redirection features use the following ports:
5120 – CD Redirection
5123 – FD Redirection