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<font size=3>We use D-Link DKVM-8E's and chain them together quite
satisfactorily to a single console in one room. It works okay for
16 nodes. I don't know why it wouldn't work for 40, but there's no
way to access them remotely.<br><br>
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Mike<br><br>
At 08:17 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi,<br><br>
Do people here normally use KVMs for management of compute nodes or
forego those and either have a grad student with a keyboard+monitor on a
trolley or rely entirely on remote management cards and/or IPMI?<br><br>
For those of you that use KVMs, what ones do you normally use?<br><br>
I'm taking a look around at the moment and for 40+ nodes, KVMs look like
quite an expensive option. It's not clear either how well or which KVMs
can be operated remotely.<br><br>
The scenario I have is that I have ~40 nodes in a room and I would like
to hook a KVM switch to all of these and be able to connect to the switch
from other parts of the building. I see Avocent (for example) have some
switches that kinda fit this model - but its not clear whether the
Avocents can be accessed over a standard Ethernet LAN, or whether you
have to run a dedicated CAT5 cable around your building specifically to
connect to the KVM switch.<br><br>
Any experience from others on this welcome, I've mostly relied on
post-boot remote access, remote management cards and IPMI up to
now.<br><br>
Thanks,<br><br>
-stephen<br><br>
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