Thursday, February 5, 2009

Comparison of console management techn{iques,ology}

Here's a great bit of work by Ian Durkacz (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, April 2007) which compares various methods of remotely connecting to the console of a Linux server:

http://www.dice.inf.ed.ac.uk/units/infrastructure/Projects/06-Consoles/consoleoptions.pdf

It covers KVMoIP, multi-port serial cards, serial concentrators, IPMI and Dell Remote Access Cards (DRAC) and provides rough per-server prices.

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