Can Intel® AMT replace iLO?

Question

Iron

I'm thinking about purchasing the HPE ProLiant ML10 Gen9 as standard. Googled and read about Intel® AMT, which this model is equipped with, but did not understand whether this technology is a full-fledged analogue of iLO? Those. can I remotely install an operating system from scratch, format drives, etc., i.e. to use the same as I use iLO? In reviews and descriptions, everything is somehow very vaguely described, and buying at random is a so-so idea. The presence of iLO is clearly indicated in the ML30, but the price tag is twice as high.

Answer 1

In general, yes. This may be a replacement for the full iLO. Of course, corporate iLOs are more than that. But all that you listed: "remotely install the operating system from scratch, format disks, etc." - you can.
The only question is which version of AMT, because. a vulnerability was recently discovered, and here on my Asus Q170M2 - there is still no normal BIOS version, i.e. after I raised the case in the spring - by December they updated - the vulnerability was gone, but they (more precisely, Intel gave the partners an unfinished version of ME, and they sewed it up without checking it) broke the TLS connection. Now I'm waiting to be finished.
PS
A couple of nuances:
* works only with an integrated video card (chipsets "Q" support, and like "C")
* only with processors without "K"
but all this applies only to "home" and "corporate desktops" (probably the proliant also applies to them).
And yes, if iLO usually connects via Web + Java, then to AMT it’s either Mesh Commander, or something like that it’s called (it’s terrible, but it’s free for that), or paid VNC (it costs space, only by subscription, but there are always alternatives ;-)). It is possible and free VNC with slaughtered functionality.