FS - IBM BladeCenter E chassis and HS21/HS21xm blades

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DracoDan

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I'm crazy enough to be running an IBM BladeCenter in my house... Recently I managed to pick up a BladeCenter H chassis and a bunch of HS22 blades, so it's time to offload some stuff. This had no problem running vSphere 6 even though it's no longer on the HCL.

IBM BladeCenter E (8677) Chassis - $150!!!
Includes:
  • 4x 200-240v 2000w PSUs
  • 2x Fans
  • 2x Cisco gigabit switches (in chassis)
  • 2x Advanced Management modules
  • 2x 4gb Fiber channel switches (which annoyingly require an old version of java to manage, consider them a freebee)
IBM Acoustic Attenuation Module 39M3330 - $100!!!
This is a muffler for the BladeCenter E chassis that works very well. While it seems pricey, thing is impossible to find and a savior for running this chassis at home. I paid almost $400 including shipping from Australia to get it!

IBM HS21 xm (7995) blades - $75/ea
Each includes:
  • 2x Intel Xeon L5420 quad core low voltage CPUs (Quad core, 2.5ghz, 12MB, 50w) + Heatsink
  • 8x 2GB (16GB) PC5300 PC2-5300F FB-DIMMS
  • BONUS! I made tiny adapters for a secret USB pin header that let you use small thumb drives inside the blade to boot from, great for ESXi!
  • Special hard drive mounting screws (blades have one empty drive bay)
  • Qlogic 4gb Fiber channel CFFv card
IBM HS21 (8853) blades - $50/ea
Each includes:
  • 2x Intel Xeon L5420 quad core low voltage CPUs (Quad core, 2.5ghz, 12MB, 50w) + Heatsink
  • 4x 2GB (8GB) PC5300 PC2-5300F FB-DIMMS
  • Special hard drive mounting screws (blades have two empty drive bays)
  • Qlogic 4gb Fiber channel CFFv card
RAM upgrade upgrade:
  • 4x 4GB (16GB) PC5300 PC2-5300F FB-DIMMS $25/16GB set (Not selling individually at this time)
Shipping will be at the cost of the buyer from 22191, or you can pick up locally.

I am open to negotiation (especially if buying in bulk) and trades, just ask!

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DracoDan

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You mean what DON'T I use it for? :D

Seriously though, I never have to worry about not having a big enough sandbox! I work for a certain very large virtualization company (I'm not saying which, but you can probably guess ;)) and they pretty much expect us to have home labs, plus it's great for training on the latest and greatest products.

Here are some things I've used it for:
VMware vSphere ESXi (multiple versions, especially for interoperability testing)
VMware VSAN
VMware SRM (multi-site in the same chassis)
VMware vRealize Automation
VMware vRealize Orchestrator
VMware autodeploy
VMware vSphere DPM (hey, some day someone might use it!)
VMware vSphere FT
VMware vRealize Operations
Others I'm probably forgetting...