I'm thinking of colocating a number ( 8 ) of servers in my own cabinet in a local data center and have been offered a reasonable deal on a 1u TFT display, keyboard and trackball. Reasonable still means over £500 and I'm wondering if there is any option to use a laptop to control the servers instead. I know that I can administer the servers across the network when everything is working well but it's those times when a system is down or won't boot that I'm wondering about.
