if i buy a motherboard with ipmi, i don't need to get a GPU, right?
Sorry, I'm not very used with server stuff, if I buy an Intel CPU without an integrated GPU like most Xeon, then I wouldn't have enough pcie lanes for a GPU because all is taken for nvme drives
Specifically, the motherboard ipmi is powered by aspeed ast2500
If I understood right, that chip will act as a 2d basic graphics card that's enough to see what happens that day the server is unresponsive
I don't plan to connect a monitor, it's just that I'm scared if I break truenas and I can't connect via ssh, then I could still see the local screen from the management Page on the browser
I mean yeah probably, but you better hope to God that the motherboard has DHCP enabled by default. I don't know why it wouldn't, but I've seen some stupid configs in my life.
Why it should need dhcp? You can configure bmc's IP from the bios or from the system running ipmitool. I never use dhcp for the ipmi's ip, it is better to use a static one since it is better to keep always the same one.