Cyclades User's Guide manual Cascaded Devices

Cascaded Devices

Cascaded Devices

The KVM/net supports cascading, which allows administrators to connect secondary KVM units to a primary KVM/net. Cascading allows administrators to increase the number of managed devices to up to 1024 servers with a centralized configuration and access interface.

A maximum of 32 secondary KVM devices can be cascaded from the primary KVM/net extending the number of KVM ports to a maximum of 512 for two- user configuration (i.e. two connections to each cascaded device), or 1024 for a one-user configuration.

The following diagram depicts a basic cascaded configuration of a primary KVM/net with 32 ports and one KVM and one KVM Expander cascaded from it.

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