hi boys & girls
i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over-IP (VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated. some VNC solution would be great. does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations? as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)
-steven
Hello Steven
then dont search for a complete solution. Get a normal, expandable KVM, and there exists some VGA etc to IP Converters - so build it from two devices. thats cheaper
I will search through my bookmarks now
silvan Am 21.01.2008 um 09:12 schrieb Steven.Glogger@swisscom.com:
hi boys & girls
i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over- IP (VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated. some VNC solution would be great. does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations? as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)
-steven _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
We use the HP solution, because it adds only one more Cat5 Cable per Server to the racks, whereas other solutions are just a nightmare to keep your cabling decent looking.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/rack-options/scs/ index-kvm.html
Pricing is OK IMHO, YMMV
Cheers, Viktor
Sorry, just found out, that they're EOL. But maybe there's one on Ebay ;-)
Cheers, Viktor
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantstorage/rac k-options/scs/ index-kvm.html
Tschau Steven, Hesch gut ? Au scho lang nuem ghört und gseh ;) lueg chasch au mit sowas was afange.. http://www.opengear.com/virtualkvm.html
Mit freundlichen Grüssen Alexander Faes Professional Services // Network Engineer BECHTLE IT-SYSTEMHAUS ZÜRICH tel: +41 43 333 73 02 gsm: +41 79 570 85 00 fax: +41 43 333 70 70 alexander.faes@bechtle.ch www.bechtle-it-systemhaus.ch
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Steven.Glogger@swisscom.com Gesendet: Montag, 21. Januar 2008 09:12 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] KVM-over-IP
hi boys & girls
i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over-IP (VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated. some VNC solution would be great. does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations? as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)
-steven _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
ciao alex
ich brauch hardware, keine software geschichte, wenn der windows server spackt... ,-)
-steven
-----Original Message----- From: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Faes, Alexander Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:24 AM To: swinog@swinog.ch Subject: AW: [swinog] KVM-over-IP
Tschau Steven, Hesch gut ? Au scho lang nuem ghört und gseh ;) lueg chasch au mit sowas was afange.. http://www.opengear.com/virtualkvm.html
Mit freundlichen Grüssen Alexander Faes Professional Services // Network Engineer BECHTLE IT-SYSTEMHAUS ZÜRICH tel: +41 43 333 73 02 gsm: +41 79 570 85 00 fax: +41 43 333 70 70 alexander.faes@bechtle.ch www.bechtle-it-systemhaus.ch
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] Im Auftrag von Steven.Glogger@swisscom.com Gesendet: Montag, 21. Januar 2008 09:12 An: swinog@swinog.ch Betreff: [swinog] KVM-over-IP
hi boys & girls
i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over-IP (VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated. some VNC solution would be great. does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations? as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)
-steven _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
Steven,
From what I have seen so far, the most portable solution are the KVMs from
Startech.
They got it all, VNC, JAVA client which works with any Java Capable OS, Radius for Auth and so on.
Unfortunately they do not make a CAT5 KVM :( but as others have adivised you could buy a KVM to IP bridge from them and use it with your existing KVM solution. Their p/n for it is SV1110IPEXT
If you want to go really cheap: Look out on Ebay.com, this extender pops up there regularly and goes for around 200$, which, considering current dollars condition is a steal.
Another nice solution is IMHO latest Raritan Dominion KVMs, those are pretty reliable and nice but very pricey.
Cheers
Hi,
Just a 2-penny worth from Geneva. We looked at three makes of IP-KVMs last year and came to the following conclusions:
Rittal and HP. Both use a Java Interface which is a) incomprehensible and b) unreliable. We couldn't set the keyboard type (Swiss keyboard is standard here) and the mouse didn't work properly. They crashed browsers of all sorts on Windows and Linux machines. The general consensus was that to reboot a server with the HP KVM was just slightly easier than driving 20km through the snow to the data centre but only just.
Raritan Dominion These boxes were the only ones we found that worked and were good to use. But they come at a price, it's your Rolls Royce.
Sadly there does not seem to be much competition in this market (unlike the automotive industry).
Sorry to be negative but that's what we found.
Jonathan Nicholas
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:12 +0100, Steven.Glogger@swisscom.com wrote:
hi boys & girls
i'm looking for a nice (and of course cheap) solution for a KVM-over-IP (VGA,USB for keyboard, mouse; some mice need PS/2 adapters) switch for my windows servers. a port capacity >=16 ports would be appreciated. some VNC solution would be great. does someone has a good experience with a product? some recommendations? as i said: i'm not looking for the rollsroyce-priced tool ,-)
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