Remote management solutions generally combine remote management, intelligent power, and environmental monitoring. Below are example solutions from Avocent and Raritan that enable IT professionals to easily integrate their remote locations into their centralized management process, as well as standalone solutions offered by other vendors. Integrated Remote Management Solutions Avocent Remote Management: Avocent’s DSView 3 software
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FAQ–What client platforms does KVM over IP support?
Q: What client platforms does KVM over IP support? A. Platform support varies by device. For example, Raritan offers a Java-based multi-platform client and will work with a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Sun/Solaris, and Macintosh. Other devices use an Active-X platform and provide support only for Windows. Visit our “Frequently Asked Questions
What are Liquid Cooling Units?
What Are Liquid Cooling Units? Liquid Cooling Units are modular, temperature-neutral high-density cooling solutions that utilize air/water heat exchangers to provide uniform, effective cooling. One of the main benefits of self-contained liquid cooling units is that they result in little or no impact on the existing HVAC system.Liquid cooling units are mounted at the rack
Top 5 Datacenter Challenges: Capacity Planning (Part 3)
Capacity planning is an essential aspect to creating, expanding, or optimizing a datacenter. There are five main factors that you need to consider when performing capacity planning. Below is a discussion of some of the trends within these areas that will help you get your datacenter on the track to using industry-leading best practices. Top
Top 5 Datacenter Challenges: Cooling (Part 2)
Heat is an important factor that significantly affects IT performance. Traditionally, most datacenter managers have relied upon the use of ambient air cooling solutions (alternating cool and hot rows) to meet their cooling needs. However, ambient air cooling solutions are often unable to handle high heat loads, are not targeted, and can be cost and
Top 5 Datacenter Challenges: Power (Part 1)
Remote power management solutions allow administrators to remotely power cycle servers and devices and troubleshoot problems, both locally and remote, from any location in the world. This provides administrators with the ability to manage servers more efficiently and reduce server downtime by affording direct access to power control. Remote power management solutions are also used
Server Management: Upgrade Your KVM Technology
Upgrade your current KVM architecture and clean up your server room! Below are a few ways you can update your datacenterenvironment. 1. Upgrade to CAT5 CAT5 KVM switches dramatically reduce desktop and server rack cable clutter and allow users and computers to be situated farther apart than they could be using standard KVM cables. CAT5
What is a service processor?
Integrated onboard technologies, or service processors, are microcontrollers embedded in a motherboard of a server, a PCI card, or on the chassis of a server. Service processor features vary by manufacturer and include remote power-cycling of devices, monitoring of a server’s on-board instrumentation (temperature, CPU status, fan speed, and voltage), remote console access via Serial
FAQ–How much rack space does a KVM switch require?
Depending on the size of the KVM configuration, for up to a 42-port solution, most KVM switches typically occupy 1U of rack space. Once you upgrade to a 64-port KVM solution, 2U of rack space will likely be required. For more information visit: https://www.42u.com/kvm-switch-article.htm.
3 Tips for Finding the Best Fit Server Rack
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” Historically speaking, many data centers have not allocated much thought or strategy in server rack deployment beyond the basic need of functionality and upfront costs. Fast forward a few decades, the rising costs of energy has inspired a deeper comprehension of strategy geared towards efficiency and self-sustainable resources;