[geeks] Best place to buy new (or nearly-new) Sun kit...

[hike]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 02:07:36PM -0500, John Francini wrote:
> > In my capacity as an obtainer of things tech for $WORK, I've been asked
> > to buy a couple of Sun Netra servers (SPARC, not Intel) with PCIe buses.
> > Having zero experience with buying Sun kit, I'm wondering whether it's
> > better to buy such directly from Sun, or to go through a reseller.  If
> > the latter, is there a decent one in New England that you can recommend?
>
> Anysystem.com.  John Butler and his folks are Good People.  Tell them I
> sent you. 8-)
>
> Not only are they one of the best Sun resellers around, John has been a
> long-time supporter of SunHELP (almost ten years now) and the Sun community
> in general.  Up until the last couple of systems, SunHELP ran on equipment
> from Anysystem, and I've got a 1U x86 box sitting in my living room right
> now from them that's going to be the Jumpstart server when I reinstall the
> T1000 and move stuff onto it to retire the E420R.
>
> Also recommended is Bill Sweeney @ Acclinet.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> Houston, Texas
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be careful of Acclinet.
we have suffered a 50% failure rate when purchasing their servers.

example: we purchased 4 v440 and two needed systemboard replacements before
we could load the OS and configure the hardware raid.  at least four hard
drives would fail under the hardware raid or svm.
we purchased a v240 that had to be replaced before we could load the OS.
we purchased 2 T3 arrays with 2 fibre cards in another v440.  One of the
fibre cards was DOA.

i worked for 3 years as a sun fe on this era of equipment.  the Acclinet
"sun fe" constantly asks me to redo testing (just like dell!).  after i have
already defined the problem, going back and doing it again is quite a pain
as well as a greater time delay.

i have never experienced a major failure with anysystems.  once an hard
drive failed and they sent a replacement out immediately.