Suggestion for KVM over IP

[matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg-fCu/yNAGv6M at public.gmane.org> wrote:

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> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Rich Braun wrote:
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> >
> > All the above problems were solved at a very similar per-port price point
> > ($300 give or take) using Dell DRAC or HP ILO cards.  Someone already
> pointed
> > out the negative of that solution:  you have to build out a separate
> physical
> > LAN, at a cost of about $20-50 per port for cables and switches plus
> labor.
>
> Why do you have to have a separate physical LAN? We have some HP and SUN
> ILO devices (on the motherboards) and connect them to LAN ports on the
> same switches as the main OS uses and in the same VLAN. The ILO software
> does not appear to be particularly insecure, logins and passwords - indeed
> whole sessions are encrypted.
>
> > But the upside of that is you get to create separate DNS entries for
> every
> > console, which makes things vastly easier to manage if you've got more
> than a
> > few dozen servers.
> >
> > -rich
> >
> >
> >
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For small networks it may not matter, or it may be trying to keep costs
down.  But as you get larger you want to keep your remote management/access
network separate from your production traffic.

-matt