<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Eric,<div><br><div><div>On 24/06/2008, at 3:06 PM, Eric Cheng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi there<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’m looking to implement a IP-KVM solution. Has anyone got any recommendations / feedback? Needs to support about 8 servers and fairly cost effective. I’ve had a look at the Raritan and also the Avocent range and the Raritan Dominion KXII seems to be best out in the market at the moment.</div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>We're making use of the Avocent gear (via DELL) - and it is pretty damn good, it's especially great with more Dell/Avocent gear where if you plug 1 Avocent KVM (i.e. the ones integrated into dell blades) into a master unit all the channels appear nicely rather than having to do multi-level key combinations, etc, quite nice.</div><div><br></div><div>The other nice thing about the Avocent is you can get a reasonably cost effective "passive extender" that turns 1 port into 8 more so you can run 1 bit of cat5 somewhere to have 8 closer ports. </div><div><br></div><div>I've used a Raritan Dominion KX (the first version I think) and it was pretty nice but a bit buggy.. it locked up from time to time (even with latest firmware updates) and had some issues at times.. generally had a little less experience with the Avocent but its been a far better experience than the Raritan. that said the Raritan was quite respectable.</div><div><br></div><div>Using 16-port cat-5 varieties in both cases... also don't discount the $50-$200 cost for the end modules.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Trent</div></div></body></html>