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I have 1 box in lab which I boot a few different OS's via USB drives wondering how this unit handles this environment?

Thank you for your inquiry,

Most KVMs with switchable USB ports, including the Avocent AV2108-001, simply push a regular USB signal through the KVM dongle - hence the functionality of the USB devices is not OS dependant. However be aware that if you are switching a storage drive device, some OS do not support formats that others may - I.e. MAC would not support that native Windows NTFS without a plugin, and Linux users would typically format their devices into ext2/3/4, JFS, XFS, ResiserFS, which may not work on other OSs.

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what is the life cyle of this product? is this a new product? We would like to use this product with HP Generation 9 servers, is it going to be compatible?

Thank you for your patience as we gathered the life cycle information for the AV2108.
At 77 Deg F, MTBF(hr): 881,337 - MTBF(yr): 100.6 - Failure Rate: 1,135

At 104 Deg F, MTBF(hr):465,268 - MTBF(yr):53.1 - Failure Rate: 2,149

As For the compatibility, Avocent assumes no issues will arise however cannot guarantee this.

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