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Blade ServerS  

Managing Dell  

PowereDge M1000ꢀ  

BlaDe ServerS  

with the avocent  

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switch, an analog KVM switch integrated into the Dell  

PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosure, is designed  

KvM Switch  

By Stephen M. Hahn  

Chad Fenner  

The Avocent® iKVM (integrated keyboard, video, mouse)  

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to simplify administrative tasks by letting IT staꢀ easily view,  

monitor, and manage server blades and by providing access  

to the remote management and power control functions of  

the PowerEdge M1000e Chassis Management Controller.  

n data center environments, simple, flexible server  

monitoring and management tools can be critical  

to maintaining efficient operations. The Avocent  

Avocent iKVM switch firmware through the CMC firm-  

ware update utility.  

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iKVM (integrated keyboard, video, mouse) switch, an  

analog KVM switch integrated into the Dell PowerEdge  

M1000e modular blade enclosure,¹ is designed to let  

administrators easily view, monitor, and manage each  

of the 16 server blades in the PowerEdge M1000e and  

provide access to the Dell Chassis Management  

Controller (CMC) for management and power control.  

Key features of the Avocent iKVM switch include local  

access to each server blade, one-to-one administra-  

tion for up to 16 administrators accessing each of the  

USing the avocent ꢀKvM Switch  

The Avocent iKVM switch provides traditional KVM  

switching between server blades in the Dell PowerEdge  

M1000e enclosure as well as a scanning feature, which  

allows administrators to scan through preselected  

blades while pausing for a specific time at each blade.  

They can also select a specific blade through the  

OSCAR main dialog box, as shown in Figure 1. In addi-  

tion to the blade names (which administrators can set  

themselves or pull from the CMC automatically during  

setup) and chassis slot numbers, the OSCAR interface  

provides status information for each blade: a green  

circle, for example, indicates that the blade is online  

and functioning properly, while a red Xmeans the blade  

is offline or not functioning properly. A yellow circle  

indicates that a blade is online but unavailable—for  

example,becauseanotheruseriscontrollingitremotely.  

The letters in the right column provide additional infor-  

mation, such as whether a blade is being accessed by  

a user panel (a green letter) or blocked by a specific  

user channel (a black letter), and whether the blade is  

being accessed through the rear panel (the letter A)  

or the front panel (the letter B). When administrators  

Related Categories:  

Avocent  

Blade servers  

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6 blades, integration with the Avocent On-Screen  

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Configuration and Reporting (OSCAR®) graphical user  

interface for configuration and to work with existing  

Avocent KVM infrastructures, integration with the  

Microsoft® Active Directory® directory service, and  

access to the integrated Dell Remote Access  

Controller (iDRAC) on each blade.  

The Avocent iKVM switch is compatible with stan-  

dard USB keyboards and pointing devices as well as  

with VGA monitors that support Display Data Channel  

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DDC). Its video connections support display resolution  

ranges from 640 × 480 at 60 Hz up to 1,600 × 1,200 at  

5 Hz. When necessary, administrators can update the  

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¹ For more information on the PowerEdge M1000e, see “The Next-Generation Dell PowerEdge M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure,” by Chad Fenner, in Dell Power Solutions, February 2008,  

DELL.COM/Downloads/Global/Power/ps1q08-20080206-Fenner.pdf.  

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Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, February 2008. Copyright © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.  

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