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A KVM console is an interface device accessible from the Cisco UCS manager GUI or the KVM launch manager that mimics a direct KVM connection. The DKX3 high performance KVM-over-IPs is the top of the range KVM consoles we are showcasing today.  It is an enterprise class KVM-over IP switches which enables one to eight users with remote BIOS-level control of 8 to 64 servers.

Let’s look at some of the features of the console; features a fully integrated LCD Console with a TFT widescreen in a rack mountable housing, short depth design allows you to install the device in a narrow space, superior video quality, ultra slim 99 keys keyboard with small numeric keyboard and two button touchpads, access and control up to 8 computes from a single USB KVM (keyboard, video and mouse) console, support computers with USB or PS keyboard and mouse, supports multiple systems: Windows, Linux, Mac and Sun, convenient computer switching via front panel pushbuttons, hotkeys or OSD(On-Screen Display), hot pluggable – add or remove computers without having to power down the switch, auto scan feature for monitoring user-selected computers, broadcast mode – operations simultaneously performed on all selected computers, two level password security-only authorized users can view and control the connected computers, keyboard and mouse emulation function and standard rack mount kit and KVM Cables included. KVM switches actually preceded the development of servers, and most definitely preceded the concept of rack-mounted servers. While servers became very popular, the need to connect or focus the connections of several servers down to a few keyboards; both pointing devices, and displays became important. To meet the skyrocketing number of installed servers, KVM switches began to evolve from just single-port to 4 to 8-port switch products, to larger products such as 16-, 32-, 128-, and 256-port units.

A key step towards remote management of data centres is the initiation of serial over LAN (SOL) technology. Generally, to manage different infrastructure and components in a data centre, it was necessary to connect a laptop through a serial cable to the device, which requires to be managed. This has had the disadvantages of needing the operator to be within the data centre and the cable to be connected to each specific device for every separate operation. To face the issue of separate connections for each operation, transfer switch manufacturers with the serial console servers have been designed to consolidate access to serial devices and function with a single interface. A serial console server has multiple ports, ranging 16 or 48, each one of them connecting to the serial management port on the device to be managed within the data centre. This allows the operator to go to a single video console within the data centre and from there manage a number of serial components. While it greatly increases efficiency, it still requires an operator to be physically inside the data centre. A huge further development is some serial console servers are now also IP-based and are remotely accessible. Given that scenario, we have serial over IP, or more common-place, reference, known in the industry as serial over LAN (SOL). The operator no longer needs to be inside the data centre but can be remotely connected to the serial console server and it can access in near-real-time components that are connected to it. The serial console servers are operating system, are not hardware dependant so multiple server and device types, as well as different operating systems, such as Cisco, or Linux, can be handled from a single high-performance, remotely positioned console.