wtf IBM?

[Red Squirrel]

So one of our fiber cards failed on our SAN. We don't have a support contract anymore because it is 30,000 to renew it (yes, that's 30k!) and we are getting a Dell san soon.

So we decide to call their support to get a price for a new card.

Get this:

$26,000.

OMFG, are you kidding me? I could understand 1k, maybe 2k, as enterprise class stuff is expensive. But 26k?!?!

Is this normal for a san part to be this expensive? We have 16 of these cards, talk about some serious ebay profit later on.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Woah, dude. Guess it pays to get the contract lol..

 

[Fear No Evil]

eBay?

 

[alcoholbob]

Big Blue

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol we actually did check ebay but think we'll end up stealing a card from one of the shelves that is not really used. We freed up a bunch of space as some stuff that was not ours got moved off it.

The company is not ready to pay that kinda money for a card lol. That's just insane they make it that expensive. Sure it's fiber and all, but wow. You can buy like 3 pretty decent servers with that money. Virtualizing is suppose to be cheaper! 😛

 

[Nothinman]

What model card is it?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not sure TBH, I was not the one that called them or looked into the issue deeply. It's for an IBM TotalStorage SAN, that's about all I know about it. I'm fairly new to that environment so have not dealt with the SAN much. We're suppose to get training on the Dell SAN so looking forward to that.

Conveniently one of our DCs has started crapping out as of yesterday, and one of our VMs totally crapped out too. (totally unrelated to the SAN issue). Quite a crazy end of week. Kinda funny though as I don't really stress as much over that as when it's my own personal stuff. Probably because I'm not the one paying the money to fix it. 😛