Who's maintaining your z9? Is that still supported by IBM?
I know that years ago at a prior site, we had a couple HP-branded Hitachi boxes
that we were migrating off, and we went to a third party service contract for
the HP disk. When an HDA failed, I actually swapped it out and sent it to the
vendor and they sent me a replacement. Had a few sitting on the shelf for
spares. Anything bigger than a failed HDA they would send a local support tech
on site to repair it. Then when we completed our migration, they bought the
entire mess from us for the spare parts. :-)
Rex
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Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2020 2:57 PM
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Subject: [External] Hitachi RAID box going out of support
We have a 10 year old Hitachi RAID box which Hitachi tells us is going out of
support. Only two applications are left of the old z9 machine but they are
critical. Latest estimate from programmers is that they will migrate off in 12
to 18 months.
So, based on you folks experience, is it reasonable to pay extra for an
extended contract and keep the old box? I know there are other options, but
this appears to be the lowest cost, and easiest. The question is about how
older RAID boxes hold up in general.
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