#DELL IDRAC LICENSE COST SERIAL#

#DELL IDRAC LICENSE COST SERIAL#

We've had some clients use serial consoles and a serial port concentrator. The newest machines we are deploying have this built in, so the cost is only the switch port. This also has the overhead of another switch port, but it doesn't need to be an expensive switch. Plus, since each machine is individually accessible, we can give users access to their machines. Plus it gives the ability to do remote floppy/CD-ROM/DVD and read other sensors. Newer versions of the machines we use (Supermicro) have had add-in cards that for $110-ish will give us all that plus the ability to power on a machine that is off - something we don't have with the PDUs above. Cost for this was fairly low at around $65 per machine. That has been very effective for us, though you need to make sure all the machines are set up (and are capable to) power on when they lose power. For 'remote media' we can do almost all of what we need with PXE over the network (installs and rescue, mostly - BIOS updates aren't something we've done). Startech makes a power strip that will integrate with their KVMs to give you a 'reboot' button on the KVM, but we haven't used those. Then if we need to power-cycle a hung machine we use the APC power stripts that allow us to do remote power control. That gives us access to the VGA, PS2 or USB keyboard and mouse. We selected the Startech SV1115IPEXT, which you connect to via VNC, and you can connect their multi-port KVMs behind it to control up to 130-ish devices. One is to use a discrete KVM over IP and network controlled power strip (PDU). We have two particular solutions we've used. We've been running a 'lights out' data center of around 100 machines for the last 6 years. But if you want to stick with Dell and get the capabilities I have used a KVM that does some of that. Most of the latest Supermicro systems come with similar DRAC functionality built in. There's an easy solution to the DRAC cards, but they require you to switch server vendors.

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