Early Vid: Dell PowerEdge KVM
Added 2023-10-19 14:44:55 +0000 UTCHaving a look at (and slightly modding) a Dell PowerEdge 2161 DS-2 KVM from 2007.
Video should go live on the channel this weekend.
Comments
sorta... the ps2 SIPs were $6 usd each shipped on ebay, but the usb SIP was $15. you can save money buying them in lots, and really the ps2s are good enough for my use cases because I can just use ps2 to USB converters on newer machines.
clabretro
2023-10-20 15:25:42 +0000 UTCI need make one cable for the sun T2000. it does not have a graphics card.
Renato Frederick
2023-10-20 15:20:07 +0000 UTCthe SIP is expensive now? I remember that they are expensive when new
Renato Frederick
2023-10-20 15:19:22 +0000 UTCagreed! there is pikvm and others that look really nice, but the costs can add up there too. I figured it'd be more fun to breath old life into this poweredge.
clabretro
2023-10-20 11:42:32 +0000 UTCthis poweredge had sun SIPs according to the manual and OSCAR interface, but I couldn't find any. I just use serial connections for Sun management through an MRV console server on the rack which works really nice, it exposes the serial ports over telnet.
clabretro
2023-10-20 11:41:04 +0000 UTCThere are converters to use usb keyboards on things like the old sun - that uses a weird connector/protocol - using raspberry and nothing to do an IP KVM? What is the difficulty?
Renato Frederick
2023-10-20 05:06:23 +0000 UTCI want to know why, even 2023 IP KVM are so expensive.. and why theres no open source projects to support this. Something using a raspberry.
Renato Frederick
2023-10-20 05:04:52 +0000 UTCI'll still throw that in the rack in addition to this. kinda been thinking about how to use it in the workshop area somehow 😂
clabretro
2023-10-20 00:38:12 +0000 UTCMan this is so cool. Are you gonna scrap that IBM console for this KVM now?
skver
2023-10-19 20:36:52 +0000 UTCI was wondering that too but didn't have time to monitor the traffic, I'll have to do that eventually.
clabretro
2023-10-19 18:06:56 +0000 UTCNice video, released just as I was about to start dinner so it took me a while to watch, but it was great after-dinner entertainment. I wonder what the signals over the rj45 cable look like?
Sven
2023-10-19 17:05:22 +0000 UTCYeah it was quite the surprise to see that power supply ha.
clabretro
2023-10-19 15:57:46 +0000 UTCGreat video! Crazy that the Dell and Extron share the same power supply! I did the same noctua fan mod on my 3d printer when I got it years and years ago. And yup you are correct the name is stored in the SIPs.
JesseTheStig
2023-10-19 15:28:54 +0000 UTC
