Opengear have released KCS6000 KVM gateway console server. The KCS6000 KVM gateway console server enables administrators to use their existing KVM and LCD console equipment to control all the equipment in the racks - serial, USB, network devices, as well as legacy KVM computers.
Bob Waldie, CEO of Opengear, said that currently there is an investment of more than US$3 billion in KVM infrastructure devices at data centres and enterprise computer rooms worldwide. In a market where space is king and more companies are moving to blade servers and virtual machines, useless devices are not welcomed.
He added that with the new KCS6000, companies do not have to spend money replacing old units and instead they can extend the life of their investment.
The KCS6000 thin client enables administrators to locally manage computers at the system level (BIOS, service processor, IPMI) and operating level (VMWare, Windows, Linux, Solaris) right up to the applications layers (RDP, VNC, browser and ICA/Citrix clients).
The KCS gives an administrator the ability to control headless infrastructure using the USB control ports, serial consoles, management network ports and rich embedded management clients.
The KCS6000 empowers users’ existing KVM equipment to now run a Firefox browser with Java applets in an embedded SUN JRE, to locally connect to VMWare servers, Cisco routers or IBM-RSA/ Dell-DRAC/ HP-iLO/SUN-ALOM service processors.
Embedded with Network UPS Tools to manage power using the USB or serial control ports on the power supplies, the KCS6000 is also an embedded terminal emulator, connecting existing KVM gear to legacy serial console devices.
Local operations can also be monitored remotely and securely using AAA secure with local logging and alert capabilities.