I interpreted Brian's request as asking for typical cost range or some estimate of cost. "Peanuts" is always relative to the budget of the speaker -- may or may not be peanuts in your budget.
If the switch will be essential for your operation, it also needs to have an acceptable time-to-repair/replace, which could be more of an unknown if your budget constraints influence you to look at discontinued or past-EOS devices. The effective price at least doubles if you have to buy additional units up front as insurance against possible future hardware failures. Joel C Ewing On 6/5/20 2:49 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Brian Westerman wrote: >> SO just how much are the peanuts? > Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> Peanuts mean really cheap. > Even a new switch with warranty is only a few more peanuts. For example, > the Brocade 6510 and IBM SAN48B-5 (2498-F48) switches were just recently > discontinued (May, 2020), but there might be some new stock available from > distributors. > > Looking at fully qualified (vendor blessed), reasonably physically small, > not latest model FICON switches, the discontinued Brocade 5300 and IBM > SAN80B-4 (2498-B80) switches were also qualified for IBM z13s machines (at > 4 and 8 Gb/s). The Cisco MDS 9250i (also available as IBM 9710-E01) and > discontinued Cisco MDS 9222i (IBM 2054-E01) also appear in IBM > z13s-related qualification letters. > > - - - - - - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > I.T. Architect Executive > Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions > IBM Z & LinuxONE > - - - - - - - - - - > E-Mail: [email protected] > ... -- Joel C. Ewing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
