Seeing that nobody else (that I noticed) has already mentioned it, I thought I'd say that Supermicro newer boxes have really nice KVM. The slightly older generation (harpertown/clovertown, etc.) have the Raritan AOC SIM-1U KVM sticks that are from raritan (same used in older rackable and intel whitebox servers). I know I've mentioned these before at least twice on the list, so I won't belabor it here.
The newer ones are roughly the same but are integrated onboard and change a bit for the Nehalem and Shanghai/Istanbul processor series. They lack a few of the features (like mount virtual media off an SMB share), but work fine. You can use SOL or use the javascript KVM console in a pinch. It works with any browser. The FRU management is decent, the access controls are very good and include LDAP and RADIUS options for granularity of access control. They have had some issues with firmware and the IPMI becoming unreachable, but our VAR has worked with Supermicro and we've got those resolved. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
