Secure Server Management No Matter Your Location.
IT administrators and data centre staff need responsive, reliable, secure and easy-to-use server access in order to configure, change or fix any server problem in the shortest possible time and their physical location should not prohibit them from performing any of these tasks.
At the Rack
Data centre administrators typically interact with individual servers through a simple, direct-connect analogue KVM switch. All the KVM cables from the servers connect directly to a KVM switch, which in turn has a physical keyboard, monitor and mouse attached.
Across the Hall
Capacity planners, troubleshooters and network engineers may also need access to servers, but won’t necessarily need to be located near the servers. They may however be based in the same office or campus and will need to access the KVM switch as if they were connected directly to it.
Remote Data Centre Access
High-level operations centre managers, may require remote access to servers. These employees may be located at headquarters or in another state or country and need KVM connections that operate over a network – WAN, VPN or the Internet..
Remote Office Access
In addition to needing remote access to servers in the data centres, IT staff are often also responsible for managing servers and networking equipment located in remote offices and branch offices.
Managing Blade Servers/iLOs
Data centres are running out of critical resources — space, power and cooling — even while the need for computing power continues to grow. To help address this dilemma, businesses are increasingly deploying blade servers. Besides providing space savings, blade servers drastically reduce the number of physical network, power and storage interconnects, and potentially simplifies server deployment, troubleshooting and repair.
However Blade systems add yet another vendor proprietary technology and management system to the already complex server mix and don't offer the same levels of securte centralised access and auditing offered by KVM Switch solutions.
If you would like to discuss server management in more detail, call us on 0845 017 7017 or submit an enquiry.