KVM over IP w/ Virtual Media ie USB CD-ROM other than Avocent?

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I know the MergePoint Unity products from Avocent offer this feature. Is there anything from HP, Dell, and others that provides mounting virtual media for local analog and remote ip users? This would ease managing bare metal servers. Otherwise, VMware VSphere allows mounting iso images etc into vms and on desktops I use daemontools.

Edit/update: I just found an open source usb over ip project at http://usbip.sourceforge.net which I will test soon. This may diminish the need for a kvm to provide this functionality. Nevertheless, I am curious if any other kvm units have this feature.
 
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I used to use daemon tools too until they didn't support Win7 forever. I switched to Elaborate Bytes Virtual CloneDrive and haven't looked back:
http://www.elby.ch/products/clone_dvd/manual/drive.html

Hardware based, for single nodes I've used these successfully:
http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spider.html

for multiple nodes, I have a KX-108 on the shelf that I haven't tried but the literature claims virtual media support:
http://www.42u.com/raritan-dominion-kx2108.htm

I also thought about trying one of these out before I learned of the Lantronix Spider.
http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp#overview
 
ShadowStriker said:
Whatcha mean? It runs fine on my Win7 machine.
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Yeah, today. :)
They didn't support Windows 7 until well after the RTM was available. I'm not faulting them for only supporting released versions but at the time I needed something to do ISO's and CloneDrive filled the need.
 
I have a fairly high end IBM GCM KVM with VCO converters that will do media, also have the ability to do so with my bladecenter, but I'm assuming you already have the servers.Not sure who the OEM is for IBM, might even be a special avocent unit?

another option is to look at ILO options for your bare metal. I have a cluster of SunFire servers and SUN ILOM implementation is great, the media redirection works perfectly, as long as you don't mind using a java interface.
 
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