[Info-vax] Free BL860c i2 to a good home

[David Turner]

We had to buy 2 for testing, but I was not trusting some of the offers 
on Ebay
We eventually ordered 2 with 1 x OA in each for $2200 each
new Snaphat battery in each and a firmware update and they worked well.
Thing is, if you have anything more than a server with internal or 
directly connected SAS drives, you are in for a long frustrating ride.
I still have customers who don't have the money to get HP specialists to 
go in and configure them properly
The firmware (and that DAMNED Flash interface) inconsistencies are 
frustrating to say the least.
OA requires a specific older firmware to work with the 8Gbit fiber 
pasthrough, and 10Gbit VC are almost impossible to play with
If anyone has a lot of history with these, I would love to see some 
example firmware compatibility charts for each device to work with FLASH
The command line configuration utility is another option I know, but 
extremely alien to most of my customers

DT

On 2/27/2022 12:47 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 2/27/2022 12:26 AM, gah4 wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 6:18:18 AM UTC-8, Robert A. Brooks 
>> wrote:
>>> On 2/26/2022 8:45 AM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for the dumb question but I have no experience with HPE blades;
>>>> does one have to already have a blade enclosure (c7000 or whatever) in
>>>> order to run one of these things?
>>
>>> Yeah, you'll need either a C7000 or a C3000 enclosure with relevant
>>> other hardware (Onboard Administrator, power supplies, Virtual Connect
>>> modules for ethernet and fibre channel).
>>
>> It seems that you can get a C7000, I believe with power supplies, on 
>> eBay for $216.
>>
>> Separate power supplies $20 or $25.
>>
>> That is for a 2400W or so power supply,
>>
>> I couldn't find an actual price on the HPE site, but could ask for a 
>> quote.
>
> I picked up a C3000 near me in Dallas a couple years ago for around 
> $600.  6 P/S, the Onboard Administrator and some I/O included.  The 
> C3000 was more expensive than some C7000 on Ebay but I could only 
> allow 6U in my 27U rack so the C7000's wouldn't fit.
>
> I was poking around the HPE site yesterday and seem to remember the 
> C3000 there being around $3500 for a bare chassis.  The C7000 wasn't 
> listed.  IIRC these both are either close to EOL or are EOL with HPE 
> moving on to something else in the blade area.
>