MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Raritan has unveiled what it called its next-generation KVM-over-IP switch, the Dominion KX II.
It has what the company calls a new, easy-to-deploy and scalable appliance platform that delivers powerful productivity features to help IT organizations access and manage servers from anywhere thereby improving data center efficiency.
Designed to help administrators who spend hours at a time in front of a screen managing servers, the Dominion KX II provides a high remote video resolution (1600 x 1200), tight mouse synchronization performance and a new, intuitive browser-based user interface. It also provides Universal Virtual Media to conveniently access storage media on remote servers.
Universal Virtual Media lets administrators mount drives and media from their desktop to remote servers in the data center during a KVM connection, and works without a centralized management system. KX II supports internal and USB-connected CD/DVD drives, USB mass storage devices, ISO images and PC hard drives.
It also includes Absolute Mouse Synchronization, which eliminates the time-consuming task of manually adjusting mouse parameters on each target server in order to synchronize the remote and target server mouse cursors. With Absolute Mouse Synchronization, mouse cursors stay in synch and keep annoying mouse delays to a minimum.
KX II provides BOIS-level access, so a server is available even if its operating system is not working or its network interface card has failed. If an Internet connection is unavailable, the appliance has an integrated dedicated modem port for emergency dial-up access.
For high availability, Dominion KX II comes with dual power supplies and dual gigabit Ethernet ports – both with automatic failover protection.
To protect servers from unauthorized access, KX II provides new features for added security – including strong password support and 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption of keyboard, video and mouse data.
Dominion KX II consists of two components: the KVM-over-IP switch and Computer Interface Modules (CIMs) that connect to a server’s KVM ports. The price of the line starts at US$2,995, is the same as the original Dominion KX. There are six models, ranging from 16 to 64 ports.