[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

[Francois Dion]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, hike <mh1272 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>wrote:
>> What kind of servers? these have video cards?
> all of our servers (windows, linux, sparc/solaris) have video cards,
> monitors, keyboard and mice.
>
> the sparc servers are e3000, sun blade 100, e220r, e280r, v240,v440.
>
> most of the servers are oracle servers.

The last two have a management network interface so you can do console
over ip. Not sure on the e220/280 probably serial console. e3000 is
definitely serial console. You could add something like a cisco 2500
and manage all of that over ip. Well, with the exception of the sun
blade 100 - but you could use that to connect the
mouse/keyboard/monitor and have terms connections to the other 5
machines over ip. If you make the management network a private network
to the sun blade, it gives extra security. And if you need access
remotely, establish a secure connection with firewall ip restrictions,
ssh and strong keys, then you hop on the blade and can access the
other machines from there.

Were you looking at networked KVMs where multiple users can connect to
the console of the different machines at the same time?