I'm looking at getting a few cheap xeon nodes to run openstack* bare metal on. I see that some providers offer IP KVM support, etc. How does that generally look? Do providers offer IPMI over a VPN?
Can anyone who has experience with dedi boxes with IPMI/IPKVM explain how that generally works in practice, which providers work well for this?
My pricerange is $20-$40/month for >=4core, 16gb of ram. These are for compute workloads, not restricted geographically. I would prefer gigabit for occasional large transfers, but don't need much bandwidth(even metered is ok)
- I know openstack bare metal is pretty rough around edges, but it seems like more fun than managing servers manually