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Re: KVM question



 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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