Installation Manual

Using GUI Virtual Console 201

Using GUI Virtual Console

This section provides information about using the iDRAC6 Virtual Console

feature.

Overview

The iDRAC6 Virtual Console feature enables you to access the local console

remotely in either graphic or text mode. Using Virtual Console, you can

control one or more iDRAC6-enabled systems from one location.

You do not have to sit in front of each server to perform all the routine

maintenance. You can instead manage the servers from wherever you are,

from your desktop or laptop computer. You can also share the information

with others—remotely and instantly.

Using Virtual Console

NOTE: When you open a Virtual Console session, the managed server does not

indicate that the console has been redirected.

NOTE: If a Virtual Console session is already open from the management station to

a particular iDRAC6, any attempt to open a new session from the same

management station to that iDRAC6 will fail.

NOTE: Multiple Virtual Console sessions can be opened from a single management

station to multiple iDRAC6 controllers simultaneously.

The Virtual Console page enables you to manage the remote system by using

the keyboard, video, and mouse on your local management station to control

the corresponding devices on a remote managed server. This feature can be

used in conjunction with the Virtual Media feature to perform remote

software installations.