This leads to higher levels of operational efficiency and highly reliable systems that remain secure and compliant with corporate server policy. The consistency and conformity that this approach brings creates a solid foundation or baseline so that configuration changes can be planned and deployed in a controlled and reliable manner. LANDesk Server Manager triggers a lifestyle change in the way you manage your data center allowing server operations to move from a reactive mode, where servers are managed in a one by one fashion, to a proactive and controlled mode, where deployments and changes are planned and tested once before being deployed many times using reusable modular configuration templates. This server manager solution ensures you have all of the tools required to provide reliable services and respond to incidents quickly, enabling an always on service delivery.
AVOCENT DSVIEW 3 AND ADD SERVER SERIAL
It combines systems management features such as provisioning, patch management, inventory, monitoring and alerting with remote management capabilities including KVM, Virtual Media, power control, service processors and serial console through integration with Avocent DSView management software. MS Remote Desktop, Citrix sessions and PuTTY will not be replaced any time soon by any IP KVM on the market today.The Avocent LANDesk Server Manager solution provides all of the tools you need to plan, deploy and manage your server infrastructure throughout its life cycle. Neither of these units would serve well as a day-to-day remote administration tool. If cost is a factor you’ll find yourself taking a much harder look at Raritan. Now take in to account that we were working under the “cost be damned” project control doctrine. Raritans Command Center fell short on performance as far as we were concerned. There was latency but it was tolerable and fairly adjustable. With DSView3 we did not have such a horrifying experience. It was better to go to each switch individually where the latency controls made the cursor usable but not exciting. Where Raritan really fell short in out opinion was the cursor control during remote sessions through the Command Center gateway. Both manufacturers supported ALOM ports for SUN, and IP serial interfaces where required. This is where you will hear most complaints about IP KVM remote consoles. If you’re someone without the 208V power requirements and hate the act of on-line licensing you may find Raritan is in line with your requirements except for one thing…. There is a bit more licensing involved with Avocent than Raritan and it can get frustrating to configure and activate on-line. We were impressed that Avocent DSView3 supported RSA Secure ID token based authentication which we were already running for VPN access. AD and LDAP are supported if that’s all you want. Raritans Command Center also did not support as many types of authentication to the Command Center gateway. My guess is they will have this fixed soon. What they do not support well is 208V PDU’s which is quickly becoming the standard of data centers everywhere. It also supports power cycling to individual outlets. In Raritan’s defense their Command Center does support individual PDU outlet to server association. This gave us the ability to remotely power cycle A or B power to any server remotely. We daisy chained two Server Tech 208V PDU’s per rack to the Avocent serial switches and tied per outler outlet interfaces to the Avocent IP switch ports specific to each server. We spun up a 2003 server on ESX to host it.Īvocent Cyclades PDU’s were originally Server Technology PDU’s (and were OEM’ed that way by Avocent before the application of the Cyclades brand) and therefore Avocents DSView3 was immediately compaitble with the Server Tech serial interfaces which can be daisy chained three PDU’s deep.
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Avocents DSVie3 is a licensed and installed service based component. Once again the “Command Center” is actually a 1U server appliance that must be purchased seperately for the environment.
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Raritan did not have a 3-phase 208V PDU that could be controlled to the individual outlet level through their web based “Command Center” interface.
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To cut to the chase in the end we went with Avocent and here’s why: We needed to support remote power cycling to 3-phase 208V power distribution units. I’ve had so many email requests regarding the outcome of the KVM testing at the American Kennel Club ( see: Part 1) that I decided to post a follow-up to detail the conclusion of the testing and selection.