Re: RAID Cache Battery Source

[ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Them quoting a T&M like that is a VERY strong suggestion of how good an
idea it is to keep your box on maintenance!  I can't imagine running a
business on one without it... it says the company is not considering your
server to be important, IMO.




                                                                       
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So that you don't mislead folks. The $8206 is the Purchase Order you
need to issue to IBM. While this does give them the ability to invoice
you this amount if the work is actually that hard, they would not in
actual practice invoice you anywhere NEAR that amount to replace a cache
battery. Athough I would still expect the total to easily exceed $500
plus Parts.

Also to be clear, if you have no contract they will work on your system
only between 8 and 5 M-F and may not get there the day you issue the PO
either.

My first question is: Why no maintenance? Comparing the price of the
system and the cost of maintenance and it's a no brainer! Besides that,
things like this battery replacement are trivial when under maintenance.
Lose a planar board and you're basically buying a new system.....

- Larry


Fred Horvat wrote:
> I did call IBM and their T+M was $8206 plus the battery.  No Joke...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:49 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> You should still be able to give IBM a PO for time and materials work.
> Search the archives for "Batteries Plus". There were lots of discussions
> about model numbers, etc.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Cell 708-670-6978
> Office 512-392-2577
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fred Horvat
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:19 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> The system is not under maintenance.
>
> I have a local battery place similar to Batteries+.  I would just
schedule
> it for a Saturday to shut down, drive there, hope they can make/order a
> battery, drive back, and replace the battery.  If I have to order a
battery
> then just do another shut down.  Doing a location search I saw that there
is
> a Batteries+ near me so if the first battery place does not have it then
I
> can always try Batteries+.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:36 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> It should be covered by hardware maintenance.  It is on our systems.
>
> Failing that you can take the old battery pack to Batteries+ (
> http://www.batteriesplus.com/ ) and they'll build a replacement.
> Warning, though, that the B+ by me takes 7-10 days to do the build so you
> may have to run w/o cache, i.e. "degraded", for a bit and have 2
maintenance
> windows (1 to remove the old, 1 to install the new).
>
>
> --
> John A. Jones, CISSP
> Senior Analyst, Global Information Security Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
> tel: +1-630-455-2787 fax: +1-312-601-1782 john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fred Horvat
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RAID Cache Battery Source
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> On our 520 we just started getting a RAID Cache Battery warning stating
we
> have 79 days before failure.  The system has a 5709 RAID card and the
> battery part number is 42R5070.  Anybody have any sources on where I can
> obtain the battery?  Via a couple of sources I've not had any luck in
> finding one.  I'd like to replace the battery on a weekend.  Worse case I
> shut the system down (after flushing cache of course) and pull the old
one
> out and cross reference it to something else.
--

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