A data center technician is tasked with the initial configuration of eight new 1U servers recently installed in a single rack. The servers do not yet have their remote management interfaces configured, and there is only one monitor and keyboard available at the rack. The technician needs to access the UEFI/BIOS on each server to set the boot order and begin the operating system installation. Which of the following solutions would be the most efficient for the technician to use in this scenario?
A rack-mounted KVM switch
Manually moving the single monitor and keyboard between each server
A rack-mounted KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) switch is the most efficient solution in this scenario. It allows a single set of peripherals (keyboard, monitor, and mouse) to connect to multiple servers, enabling the technician to switch between them with a simple button press or hotkey. This is ideal for managing multiple servers in a rack, especially for tasks like accessing the graphical UEFI/BIOS for initial setup. A mobile crash cart is less efficient because it would require the technician to physically move the connections between each of the eight servers. A serial console server provides only command-line access and cannot be used to interact with a graphical UEFI/BIOS interface. Manually moving the peripherals is the slowest and most cumbersome method.
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