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.
Mike
At 08:17 AM 1/16/2009, you wrote:
Hi,
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?
For those of you that use KVMs, what ones do you normally use?
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.
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.
Any experience from others on this welcome, I've mostly relied on
post-boot remote access, remote management cards and IPMI up to now.
Thanks,
-stephen
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