At 10:46 AM 15/11/2007, Hayes Elkins wrote:
Bah for KVM price gouging! With Dell DRACs (Dell Remote Access
Controller) and the HP equivalent working with standard cheap
ethernet switches, I never saw the point in buying into the KVMoIP
pricing scam. The new generation 9 Dell Poweredge racks dont even
have keyboard and mouse ports because hardly anybody accesses them
directly from the console anymore.
The typical KVM apologist defense is that $3000 for a KVMoIP product
is cheaper than getting a $400 DRAC for each dell server plus the
extra port required on your switch. The reality that *everyone*
knows is that when buying Dell servers they bundle DRACs practically
for free, and needing two ports on a switch per server is
immeasurably insignificant when managed switching these days costs
under $10 a port!
<shrug> Doesn't sound like it does anything for my situation though.
T
