Dell iDRAC8 Configuring and Using Virtual Console, Supported Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates

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Configuring and Using Virtual Console

You can use the virtual console to manage a remote system using the keyboard, video, and mouse on your management station to control the corresponding devices on a managed server. This is a licensed feature for rack and tower servers. It is available by default in blade servers.

The key features are:

•A maximum of six simultaneous Virtual Console sessions are supported. All the sessions view the same managed server console simultaneously.

•You can launch virtual console in a supported Web browser using Java or ActiveX plug-in. You must use the Java viewer if the management station runs on an operating system other than Windows.

•When you open a Virtual Console session, the managed server does not indicate that the console has been redirected.

•You can open multiple Virtual Console sessions from a single management station to one or more managed systems simultaneously.

•You cannot open two virtual console sessions from the management station to the managed server using the same plug-in.

•If a second user requests a Virtual Console session, the first user is notified and is given the option to refuse access, allow read-only access, or allow full shared access. The second user is notified that another user has control. The first user must respond within thirty seconds, or else access is granted to the second user based on the default setting. When two sessions are concurrently active, the first user sees a message in the upper-right corner of the screen that the second user has an active session. If neither the first or second user has administrator privileges, terminating the first user's session automatically terminates the second user's session.

Related Links

Configuring Web Browsers to Use Virtual Console

Configuring Virtual Console

Launching Virtual Console

Supported Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates

The following table lists the supported screen resolutions and corresponding refresh rates for a Virtual Console session running on the managed server.

Table 26. Supported Screen Resolutions and Refresh Rates

Screen Resolution	Refresh Rate (Hz)
720x400	70
640x480	60, 72, 75, 85
800x600	60, 70, 72, 75, 85

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