kevin79I just tested an iDRAC with a shared card. When the server is off, I can't ping or connect to the iDRAC. Is there a specific setting that I need to configure? The server has the latest firmware (iDRAC - 1.95, BIOS - 2.7.4) and is running ESXi 5.1
To my knowledge there is nothing to configure. Which shared mode did you set it to? Did you specify a shared LOM or is it shared with failover? All of the documentation I have read states that the iDRAC 6 express includes power management features via web GUI. Those features include powering on the server. I have not tested this myself though.
Are you able to access it when the server is on? If we can't get it working then I'll try to track down a server with with an iDRAC express to test with.
Thanks