I recently acquired an old Dell server for my homelab setup. I haven't touched real enterprise hardware in quite a long time. It's been a good [re]learning experience.

Let me just say this, though: putting a second computer inside the server for management (IPMI/iDRAC in this case) is genius, and it's a REALLY nice safety net.

(Short version for the unaware: independent console access and server configuration in a web UI on its own ethernet port. e.g. can reboot server and not management UI.)