KVM recommendations

Have been using the Belkin KVM's for about five years now and I love them.

The only problem I EVER had was a four year old box had a keyboard port go, and they sent me a brand new model, no questions asked. Of course they couldn't give me the same model because the one I had was so old, I they had to upgrade me to the current one.

We use a four port and a stackable eight port. This allowed us to separate the servers that are under the heaviest use onto separate systems.

The eight port has sound and usb support for keyboards and mice as well.

Can be stacked to run up to 255 systems.

I have an Aten MasterView 8-port. It's a couple of years old and has been fine. It's got a real simple On-screen display and it and the cables were reasonably priced.

I had a Cybex that just died on me after about a year and a half. It's such a pain in the ass when that happens that I'll never buy another Cybex product. If you go with Cybex, I have some cheap cables I can send you.

I have used the IOGEAR MiniView 8-Port KVM for a few years and have never had a problem with them. You can daisy chain them together for future expansion and they don't use any of those proprietary breakout boxes where the cables cost more than the switch.

Hope this helps,

I have recently purchased two kvm switches for my office, after quite a bit of shopping around. I actually called my sales rep at one of the online vendors I use to ask his advice because I had been stumped.

Here's my advice:

I. Always consider going with a model with more ports, there's always may come a point where one or two more ports may come in handy, but not necessitating a new kvm switch.

II. Belkin and IOgear are both great brands for kvw switches, just make sure to check out user reviews on cnet for particular models. Sometimes they will try out a new feature that won't work so well.

III. Make sure you buy the right cables, if they don't come with the switch.

IV. USB support is almost essential now. One of the models I have is USB, and the other is PS/2, but the USB one is definitely preferred all of our newer computers that don't even have PS/2 ports. Port replication is good for PS/2 switches.

V. Video quality can also be a concern. This is the reason I went with namebrand models.

Most KVM switches work to some satisfaction, but the better ones are much easier to maintain and use on a daily basis.

Good luck!

Yea you may find good solutions for KVM in the market. I just mention DLINK Solution as i am using this solution in my LAN Server Farm Structure.

Dlink has the 8-Port KVM Switches in their product line. you can connect up to 8 Servers or PC's to KVM Switch regardless they are having OS Windows or Linux installed. You just need one Monitor, Keyboard and mouse to switch between the PC's installed on KVM.

In the latest models of Dlink KVM has the facility to Stack the KVM Switches if you want and has requirement for more than 8 PC's. Total of 8 KVM Switches can be stacked to each other.

the models coming in DLINK are rack mountable too.