[geeks] 1U rackmount KVM switch

[Andrew Jones]

On 04/17/2012 11:31 PM, Shannon wrote:
>
> The Avocent stuff costs little more than IOGear, some of it less.
>
> The main issue with Avocent is the cables are grossly overpriced, but not
> enough to bother us.
>
> They have some very, very nice datacenter management equipment. Boss pretty
> happy so I'll probably be spec'ing out a KVM-over-IP setup since we can't run
> the analog cable (easily) for the satellite KVMs.
>

I have nothing bad to say about Avocent local KVMs.

I've never been happy with any KVM-over-IP solution.  The clients are 
usually terrible.  ActiveX, Java applets that can't handle mouse 
acceleration etc.  Avocent is no worse than usual on that front.

Some stuff is just *weird*.  The last Avocent IP KVM I used implemented 
serial support by pretending to be a glass screen terminal and giving 
you a java applet to show you the glass screen.

P.S. Is there a reason you can't just buy ILO/DRAC options for these 
hosts?