Maybe this is a silly question, but is there a reason to run Cat6 to KVMs and PDUs at all? They're not doing 10GbE, and Cat5 has advantages over Cat6 (a bit cheaper, a lot more flexible) if you don't actually need Cat6.
As far as your second question, I don't have a favorite PDU manufacturer, but APC is less awful than the competition, and has the biggest selection of PDUs. We've tried Eaton as well, but getting useful information over SNMP from them is just about impossible. Skylar On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am redoing my server with cat6a and fiber cabling throughout to support > 10GB. A side effect of this project is that I need to replace my KVM (only > works on cat5) and PDUs (old ones conflict with the fiber patch panels). > Right now my leading candidate is a company called Rackmountmart that sells > a Matrix KVM (made by Aten I think) and PDU made by Infrapower. > > So my questions are: > > 1. Has any used equipment from these companies and how well did it work? > > 2. Do you have any favorite vendors for KVMs or PDUs? > > Thanks, > > ski > > -- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, [email protected], 206-501-9803 > or ski98033 on most IM services > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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