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Re: KVM question

by Jerry Feldman-2 :: Rate this Message:

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BTW: One of those servers belongs to the BLU :-)
Thanks.

I'm not sure what type of KVM's are installed in our New York and
Toronto offices or if our IT department will have a say. Based upon
prior experience, the less we involve IT the better :-).

On Fri, 02 May 2008 12:11:51 -0400
John Abreau <john.abreau@...> wrote:

> I recently bought an Aten 16-port KVM-over-IP unit, and I'm
> planning to install it next week.  Once I've got it installed, I'll be
> able to tell you how well it works.
>
>
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > We just received 7 servers at work, and we now have approval to buy a
> > rack. We currently have 2 6U servers in the server room. 5 of the new
> > servers are 4U, 1 is 6U and 1 is 2U.  I probably have some input on
> > what KVM we will buy. I tend to prefer Avocent since they seem to be
> > very reliable.  Only one of the servers, to my knowledge has ILO
> > technology. All but one are Intel boxes, and the other is an HP box.
> > BostonUsergroups owns a full rack, but I never got it from Shalom
> > Keynan. If anyone knows Shalom, please give me his number since my
> > company will buy the rack from BUG. We will be moving fast on this
> > since the servers are affecting the office golf game :-)
> >
> > What I would prefer to do is to buy a KVM over IP because the server
> > room is locked, and we need to get one of the Regus Office employees to
> > let us in, but we also have some people working on weekends.  
> >
> > Or we could go a more standard route with a KVM with integrated
> > keyboard, mouse and video.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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