{"id":1901,"date":"2022-07-11T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devpath.pro\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2023-08-29T20:57:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T20:57:47","slug":"server-rack-pet-project-kvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/sys-admin\/server-rack-pet-project-kvm","title":{"rendered":"Server Rack Pet-Project: KVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happened already a handful of time that the Raspberry Pi are not reachable in the network, so I need to have a proper way to access them directly. The solution would be a KVM switch, a little overkill for my Pis, but I&#8217;m looking for something more flexible.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I found another good deal and managed to get an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iogear.com\/product\/GCS138\/\">8-Port MiniView\u2122 Ultra KVM Switch<\/a>. It is good having 8 ports, but it is a suffer having to deal with VGA &amp; PS\/2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1906\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1906 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_arrived-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">it&#8217;s arrived with a set of KVM cables, they are too thick and will take up a lot of space in the rack for sure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1910 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_unboxed-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1903\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1903\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1903 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_plugged-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I plugged all those cables and tried to leave them there for now (I need to sort them).<br \/>BONUS: in case you didn&#8217;t notice, I had to move the power strip to the back to have better cable &#8220;management&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1904\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1904\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1904 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_adapters-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">this is where all my money went: adapters, too many. I wish I had an HDMI &amp; USB KVM, does it even exist?!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1905\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1905 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_creative-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">so&#8230; plug the PS\/2 to convert to USB and from VGA to HDMI&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1907\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1907 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_long-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; and from HDMI to mini-HDMI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1908\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1908\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1908 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220606_kvm_nex-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"907\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; so that I could use my <a href=\"https:\/\/nexdock.com\/\">NexDock<\/a> (which I bought 6 years ago on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/nexdock-the-world-s-most-affordable-laptop\">Indiegogo<\/a>)&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1909\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1909\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1909 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220607_kvm_nex_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1909\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">and it&#8217;s not working. &#8220;Luckily&#8221; I bought 2 of them, so I need to try the other one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the moment I settled down with these 2 chaps:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1925 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_kvm_keyboard_mouse-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1924\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1924 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_kvm_old_fashioned-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">look at it, what a beauty! so many memories!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1923\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1923 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220706_kvm_that_little_ball-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">this little one is priceless<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the next post, I&#8217;ll talk about a NAS that I&#8217;ll use to store all my data and manage it in the local network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happened already a handful of time that the Raspberry Pi are not reachable in the network, so I need to have a proper way to access them directly. The solution would be a KVM switch, a little overkill for my Pis, but I&#8217;m looking for something more flexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"fabio","author_link":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/author\/fabio"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/category\/sys-admin\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sys Admin<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Sys Admin<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 11, 2022","modified":"Updated on August 29, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 11, 2022 12:30 pm","modified":"Updated on August 29, 2023 8:57 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabiocicerchia.it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}