HP 5600 Deploying HP KVM consoling solutions best practices - Page 10

Remote KVM console operation A PC or workstation can function as a remote (in-band) KVM console by connecting to the HP IP Console Switch through a network interface. An IT administrator can use a workstation as a KVM console to access and manage the servers in the data center. There are a number of considerations when implementing remote KVM consoling: • Network protocol • Network performance • Type of session • User management IPv6 protocol support The latest versions of the HP console switches support IPv4 and IPv6 protocols with the onboard IP Console Viewer, the OSD (Figure 8), and the serial console configuration software. The significantly higher addressing capability of IPv6 relieves the address exhaustion and translation issues that are inherent with IPv4. Figure 8. OSD network settings menu A. Network settings menu, IPv4 selected B. Network settings menu, IPv6 selected Only one protocol (IPv4 or IPv6) can be configured for a KVM system. The IPv4 protocol is the default, and it can be set for either Static or BOOTP (default) addressing. Operation with IPv4 allows switch firmware updates from File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Trivial FTP (TFTP) servers. The IPv6 protocol can be set to either Static or DHCPv6 addressing. Note that IPv6 supports firmware updates using only the FTP method when doing the update from the OSD or Serial management interface. Firmware updates can also be done on an IP Console Switch using the remote management interface. 10