Intro to Redfish API on Dell servers
With the advent of public cloud organisations of all sizes are more and more looking to implement the same agile operational models that the hyper-scale cloud providers offer. As we would say "cloud is not a destination but an operational model". To this end we have seen in the last few years a proliferation of RESTful API's to manage pretty much everything in the infrastructure world. In particular the Redfish API is the joint effort by all server manufacturers to provide an API through which to consistently manage any vendors hardware. This resulted in a DMTF industry standard Dell servers have traditionally managed through the OpenManage tool or through the iDRAC and its "racadm" command line tools. The adoption of the Redfish API with 13G servers fitted with the "DRAC with Lifecycle Controller" offered a complete different approach. The root of the API is accessed through the iDRAC as follows: https://<iDRAC IP>/redfish/v1/ The Red