Patent ID: 7808793

Claim:
A system comprising: multiple rack-mount systems; and one or more console portions, said multiple rack-mount systems respectively mounting multiple server apparatuses on multiple rack chassis, wherein each of the multiple rack chassis has a tray portion to house any one of the one or more console portions, wherein the console portion communicates with the said any one of the rack-mount systems through the tray portion and said any one of the rack-mount systems communicates with the console portion through the tray portion; each of the one or more console portions is detachably provided from the tray portion, the one or more console portions control and operate said multiple server apparatuses mounted on said multiple rack-mount systems, each one of the one or more console portions sends a scan code output from a keyboard and mouse data output from a mouse to any one of the multiple server apparatuses, and receives a video signal from any one of the multiple server apparatuses, and a number of the one or more console portions is less than a number of the multiple server apparatuses.