What does a CF processor cost these days? On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:14 AM Joel C. Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:
> I interpreted Brian's requests 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
