On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Luke S Crawford <[email protected]> wrote: > Steven Kurylo <[email protected]> writes: > >> While the DRACs on my 2650's are old (which may excuse them), I find >> they're horrible compared to my HP iLo's. > > This was also my experience. (I don't own any HP or Dell kit, but > I've worked for clients with many of both.) > >> They're quite slow. Sometimes the DRACs serial and video redirect >> become read-only. I've never figured what causes it. They hang more >> often, though I can't recall off hand I'm sure there's a way to reboot >> them without pulling power. > > You can solve most of DRAC's problems by redirecting the linux console > to the DRAC serial and using SSH to access the drac. > > a seperate serial console and rebooter setup is still cheaper and more > reliable, though. > > I have never seen a KVM over IP that worked very well, but the HP > stuff was noticably more reliable than the DELL stuff. Either way, > you are best off using serial (either through the 'lights out' card > or through a seperate serial console server.)
I am using Avocent KVM over IP and it works just fine. I am using it to access text-mode Linux consoles and a few Windows servers. Sometimes the mouse doesn't sync up, but that's the nature of how these things work. I think the people who complain about them somehow expect them to work exactly as if they are sitting at the physical console, which will never be the case. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
