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Features and Benefits

• Secure, Remote, Centralized Data Center Management - Access and control your entire IT assets (physical and virtual) from a single screen
• Multi-Device Support - Click and connect centralized management for blades, VMware virtual infrastructure, KVM over IP switches, MergePoint service processor managers, ACS advanced console servers, PM power distribution units (PDUs), select third-party KVM and PDUs
• Virtual Media Support - Map smart card/CAC readers, CD-ROMs and other media to a remote server to pass credentials, transfer files, apply application and OS patches and CD-ROM diagnostics
• Integrated Solution for KVM and Power Control - Integrates BIOS-level access and power control in one solution and provides external modem support when the network is down
• Simple, Fast and Reliable User Interface - Browser-based, customizable with usability features including keyboard pass-through, scaling and custom viewer toolbar
• Access Service Processor Managers - Administrators can manage power and system health on individual IPMI-enabled servers through the MergePoint service processor managers
• Notifications - SNMP traps and email notification for defined system events
• Scheduling - Simplify management of routine tasks, updates and file loading, including automation of task schedules and updates
• Multi-Platform Support - Wintel, Linux, Sun Solaris and SuSE platforms
• Failover Authentication - Hub and spoke architecture, provides failover access authentication, ensuring system reliability and security
• Flexible Authentication/Access Controls - Authenticate user permission against your existing internal or external authentication service, such as LDAP, Active Directory, NT Domain, TACACS+, RADIUS and RSA SecurID
• System/User Logs - System and user log management and event notification to help facilitate auditing and compliance
• Selectable Encryption Modes - Gain enhanced security as selectable encryption modes can support your security policy (AES, DES, 3DES, 128bit SSL)
• Exit Macros - Log out each user when a session window is closed
• DS Zones - Restrict user access by zones for easier tracking and auditing
  

Screen Shots

DSView 4 management software login screen

DSView 4 management software interface

Minimum requirements for DSView Management Software

The following are the minimum requirement for installing DSView software on a dedicated hub or spoke server. Requires 64-bit platform unless otherwise specified.
Operating System:

• Microsoft® Windows Server 2003 (x64), 2003 R2 (x64), 2008 (x64), 208 R2 (x64)
• SuSe® Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x64), 11(x64)
• RedHat® Enterprise Server 4 (x64), 5.4 (x64), 5.5(x64)
• Sun™ Solaris SPARC® 9, 10

The table below lists the hardware requirements based on the number of target devices.

Table 1.1 Hardware Requirements

Browser Support

• Internet Explorer® 6.0 SP1 to 9 (Windows operating systems only)
• Firefox® versions 2 to 3.6 (version 1.5 required for Mac OS)
  
  Note: If you are using Firefox, the Video Viewer and the Telnet Viewer clients require Java (see Java Installation in the DSView 3 Installer/User Guide)

Supported Virtual Infrastructures

The following Hypervisors and Hypervisor Manager versions are supported by the Virtualization Plug-in:

• Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2
• VMware vCenter 2.5, 4.0 and 4.1
• VMWare ESX/ESXi† 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1
• XEN Citrix Server 3.5 and 4.1 (Express, Standard, Enterprise or Platinum)

†VirtualCenter/vSphere is required for full support. 

Managed Appliance Support »

Blades Supported

• IBM blade chassis: BladeCenter, BladeCenter T, BladeCenter H, BladeCenter HT
• Dell blade chassis: PowerEdge 1855, PowerEdge 1955
• HP blade chassis: BladeSystem c-Class, BladeSystem p-Class
• Generic blade chassis

Supported Modems

The following modems and serial PCI cards are supported by the DSView 3 software, provided the modems are supported on the DSView 3 server operating system.  

• Perle PCI-RAS 4 and PCI-RAS 8, which are backwards compatible with Perle V90 Modem
• Equinox SST MM 4p Modem
• Equinox SST 4p Serial
• Eicon DS series ISDN BRI-2M
• Eicon DS series ISDN 4BRI-8M
   

Note: The modems listed are not supported on Sun Solaris SPARC operating systems.