IP KVM

[Anonymous user]

I understand that you can purchase a APC Multi User KVM up to 2 users. what I don;t quite understand is how many servers can be attached to at the same time by one of the users.  I have a work area with 12 computers and 1 resource computer that has 6 monitors attached. What I need is a hardware based solution that allows at least 6 ip connections up on the resource machines monitors.  Does the APC KVM do this ?

[BillP · Accepted solution]

Each user can only access one port at a time. Attached to each port would be one server module (USB, PS/2, etc) connected to the video/keyboard/mouse input of one device (i.e. a server). By what you say, does the resource computer have one or six connections for video/keyboard/mouse? It sounds to me that it only has one but with the six displays so you'd need to somehow be able to view six monitors via one server module but that would not be possible to have six separate users on the KVM view one device.

Is this device like a blade server (with a mini-KVM built in)? I ask because our KVMs support blade servers which could show your one computer but with six "blades" under it for individual access. Even so, still only two remote users could get to the "blades" in my example.

If our KVM, such as KVM2132P, was being used, it has ports for 32 devices but two users can be logged in either each viewing one of the 32 ports OR there are sharing options where users could "share" access to one port (for learning purposes maybe).

Basically, I don't think we have KVM that can do what you want unfortunately since we only have a two remote user IP KVM which would allow at max, two users to log into two separate ports at a time.