In the last ten years or so I’m built up, upgraded and replaced a lab environment. After some donations from vendors in the last decade that eventually saw me wind up in various colocation facilities – merely because the gear too much space, and made too much noise because I had so much of it. Anyway, I’ve decided to “return to the homelab” for future projects, and as such I’m winding down my commitment to the colocation and selling off my lab. The money I raise will go towards my new homelab…
What I’ll be selling shortly is:
- 5xHP DL385s, 16GB, Qlogic HBA (they all have 1 HBA, but one has two HBAs for demoing redundancy and load-balancing. They 2 dual port cards – one on the motherboard and one on the riser…
- 4xLenovo T200 with 12GB RAM each (one has the media card to support ILO type functionality)
- Another NetApp 2040
- A Brocade Silkworm Switch
Of course, I’d be open to offers for someone to roll-up with a white van and buy the whole lot. But I think that’s unlikely…
I will be setting up the ebays for the gear over the coming days but the first item up for sale is one of my NetApp 2040s… It’s listed at a starting price of £500…
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=251395707446
Quick Summary:
This array was originally a 2020 series, but its controllers were updated to be 2040, hence the listing. The array currently runs OnTap 8.0.17 in 7-mode. I’ve been informed that this array will not be able to support the later releases for OnTap. The array is licensed for FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB and also SnapMirror as well.
- 1xNetApp FAS 2040
- 8.0.1 7-Mode
- 12 SAS Drives at 132.81 GB each (1.5TB RAW Storage)
- Support for Fibre-channel, NFS, SMB/CIFS SnapMirror
- 950+ days of consecutive uptime