VERTIV AVOCENT DSVIEW
Centralised Management Software
Avocent® DSView™ Management Software helps your IT and data centre operations teams overcome these challenges by providing secure sessions to remotely locate data centre infrastructure controls. Through usage of innovative Avocent® appliances, off-network controls are network enabled for secured web-browser sessions via DSView:
Keyboard/video/mouse (KVM) controls of a standard server.
Serial port (Telnet, Putty) controls of a server, network, SAN or Rack PDU.
Proprietary connection to service processor.
MIB-based controls to infrastructure like Intelligent Rack PDU.
As a stand-alone solution, DSView delivers secured web-browser enabled sessions of on-network infrastructure controls. As an IT integrated solution, DSView delivers secured web-browser enabled sessions to Virtual Machines (VMware, MS Hyper V and Citrix Xen). As an industry proven secure, remote infrastructure management control solution, DSView has evolved a valued collection of product features, such as:
Secured, remote management control of data centre infrastructure via KVM, serial and service processor for:
- “Hands-on” management and operational state monitoring (device state, power consumption, temperature) in real-time and as a polled device threshold event.
- Control at the physical firmware level for bare metal OS provisioning.
- Control at the physical host OS level for application sessions.
- Control at the logical VM instance level for virtualized OS and application sessions.
Standards based encryption HTTPS/TLS/AES/SSH; out-of-box integration to enterprise authentication & authorization; session & event logging/reporting.
Threshold based event notification by site definition required on device parameters.
Logical data access bridges between virtual media data sources (software installation, off-site data, etc.) and remotely managed data centre infrastructure.
Hub and spoke solution architecture for disaster resistance, fail-over management and scalable solution deployment across complex data centre topology.
Supports analogy and cellular modem based Out Of Band (OOB) access to the data centre infrastructure in the event of primary network failure.
Features
Unified, secure “hands-on” control of remote infrastructure
Location independence activity:
• Triage, diagnostics and root-cause-analysis
• Disaster recovery
• SLA Management
• Application usage
Control blade & virtual servers and service processors
Native host KVM web interface
HTML5 KVM and Serial viewers
Telnet/Putty serial interfaces
Session log, report and archive
Data Centre Zone definitions
Schedule and on-demand firmware management
Logically bridges virtual media to remote infrastructure
Shares RPM data centre model
Hub-and-spoke architecture
Out of box authentication
Web secure 2048 SSL certificate
Two factor authentication
Benefits
Flexibly manage operations from any location
Single point of data centre infrastructure management
Activity logging for full operational accountability
Zone granularity access control
Consistent appliance firmware management
Flexibly restore and reimage devices from virtual media
Architected business continuity
Secured via site authentication and web certificates
Avocent DSVIEW Software (Hub/Spoke) Minimum Requirements
Small (<1000 Target Devices)
Windows/Linux Dedicated Physical or Virtual Server or (ESX/Hyper-V)
Virtual Machine (no resource sharing)
Dedicated processing priority 2+ Ghz
Dedicated 4 GB RAM y 40 GB non-expanding HDD
Medium (1000-7000 Target Devices)
Windows/Linux Dedicated Physical or Virtual Server (no resource sharing)
2+ Ghz Multi-Core CPU
6+ GB RAM
40+ GB HDD
Large (> 7000 Target Devices)
Windows/Linux Dedicated Physical or Virtual Server (no resource sharing)
One more more 2+ Ghz CPU
6+ GB RAM
40+ GB HDD
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x64), 2012 (x64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11(x64) , OpenSUSE 12.1 (x64)
RedHat Enterprise Server 6.4 (x64), 6.5 (x64), 7 (x64 ), CentOS 6.5 (x64) , CentOS 7 (x64)
Sun Solaris SPARC 10
Browser support
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Mozilla Firefox version 45.0 ESR
Google Chrome version 53
Microsoft Edge
Virtual Machine Support
VMware ESX server version up to version 6.0
Microsoft Hyper-V3
Xen Express, Standard, Enterprise or Platinum versions up to 6.5 (Enterprise and Platinum versions support resource pool, required for XenMotion)
Blades supported
IBM blade chassis: BladeCenter, BladeCenter T / H / HT
BM blade chassis: PowerEdge 1855, PowerEdge 1955
Dell DRAC MC, Dell M1000e
HP blade chassis: BladeSystem c-Class, BladeSystem p-Class
FTS BX600
Generic blade chassis
KVM over IP appliances
Avocent® MergePoint Unity™ KVM over IP &serial console switch
Avocent Universal Management Gateway 2000/4000/6000 appliance
Avocent® AutoView 3108/3216
Third-party KVM over IP appliances
Dell 1082DS, 2161DS2, 2162DS, 4161DS 4322DS, 8321DS, DAV2108, DAV2116
HP G2 Switches AF620A, AF621A and AF622A
IBM GCM2, GCM4, GCM16, GCM32, LCM16, LCM8 y Blackbox KV2116A and KV4116A
Fujitsu s2-0411, s3-1641, s4-0812, 1622, and 3242
Fujitsu Components Limited FW-D1008NP, FW-D2016NP, FW-D4016NP, FW-D2032NP, FW-S1008SR, FW-S1016SR, FW-S1032SR, FW-S1048SR
Console management appliances
Avocent ACS advanced console servers ACS 5000, ACS 6000 and ACS 8000 appliances
Avocent Universal Management Gateway 2000/4000/6000 appliances
CPS810 and 1610 serial over IP network appliances
Power devices
Power devices are supported on Avocent ACS, Avocent® CPS, Avocent® CCM appliances and on all Avocent® DSR switch and Avocent MergePoint Unity switch that contain one or more SPC ports
Avocent SPC power control devices
Avocent® PM PDUs: PM 8, PM 10, PM 20, PM 1000, PM 2000 and PM 3000
Vertiv™ Rack PDUs MPH, MPH2, MPX
Vertiv™ MPI Intelligent PDU family
Liebert® GXT4 Uninterruptible Power Supply
Third-party power devices
APC AP71xx, 78xx and 79xx series and AP8661, AP8941 PDUs*
Server Technologies Sentry 3 & 4 models CW-48V5Z454-A1P, CW-24VY-L30M, CWG24V4Z423A9/QR, CW-8H1A413, CW-24V4K425A9, STV-6502M and STV-4501C
Sentry Switched CDU CW-8H1, CW-8H2, CW-16V1, CW-16V2, CW-24V2, CW-24V3, CW-32VD1 and CW-32VD2 (supported models may change; contact Avocent Technical Support for current information) PDUs only supported through Ethernet Server Technology Sentry Switched devices supported via serial connections on Avocent® ACS, DSR switch and MergePoint Unity switch.
Supported modems
The following modems and serial PCI cards are supported by the Avocent DSView software, provided the modems are supported on the Avocent DSView software server operating system.
MultiTech MT9234SMI
Digi Rapidport USB Modem
US robotics 5686
Note: The modems listed are not supported on Sun Solaris SPARC operating systems