[ILUG] Re: Old NetApp kit available

[Ronan Mullally]

Last call on this kit, if nobody want's it it'll get WEEE'd next week.


-Ronan

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Ronan Mullally wrote:

> I've got the following sitting in a corner:
>
>   NetApp F760 (taken out of service in November)
>   NetApp F720 (used as spare parts for above)
>   NetApp F760 motherboard
>
>   2 x DS9 disk shelves with 7 x 36GB BCS disks
>   1 x DS9 disk shelf.
>
> I have a selection of 18 and 36GB ZCS disks around that can be used to
> populate the latter disk shelf.
>
> The filer heads include a couple of multi-mode gigabit ethernet cards.
> They worked fine until they were retired 6 months ago.  I've not tested
> them since, other than to scrub the disks a couple of months ago.
>
> If anybody is interested in giving them a good home let me know.  They'd
> make a good spares pool for anybody still running kit like this, or a good
> testbed for anybody using filers.  If there's a commercial motive then we
> can haggle, otherwise I'll settle for a pint (we can haggle over whether
> it's Guinness or Midleton).
>
> They'll need to be collected from Drogheda, or at a push I can deliver
> them anywhere along the M1 into Dublin city centre.
>
> Note that software and license keys are *not* included.  AFAIK they will
> run linux however.
>
> If anybody's looking to start a museum, I've also got a few Ascend
> Pipeline routers (1u, 2Mbps WAN port) and an IBM Fibre Channel
> Switch (2109 S16 - a rebadged Brocade IIRC).
>
>
> -Ronan
>