blade servers (1955)

[Aly Dharshi]

Hello,

	I would suggest - humbly - that there be a way to serial console into 
the box, maybe then one could hook it up to something like a Cyclades 
console server. Sun has had this down for ages, I don't see why Dell 
could put in a dedicated management port such as that.

	Cheers,

	Aly.

Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>   I've got a chassis of these; the machines seem to work OK; however
> I've got two issues that are mostly minor but annoying:
> 
>    1) The web interface to control them is a pain; it's slow,
> is picky about which browser to use and is very non-intuitive;
> the classic example (which we've done a couple of times) is that
> it is too easy to turn off the whole chassis by accident when
> you were actually looking for the thing to power cycle one blade.
> 
>    2) The remote KVM is another java based thing that is a bit touchy;
> we found the video quality poor with pixel droppings in various places.
> (There is a pixel error slider to change a bandwidth/quality trade off
> but we can't get it to be really nice even over a 100Mbps connection).
> And we found support (Gold) on it really didn't help.  If there is
> a Dell guy reading this then PLEASE try and find someone to turn this
> into a vnc based system; there are VNC based IP KVMs that are so
> much easier to use.
> 
> But the machines themselves are fine.
> 
> Dave

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