yeah i suppose you could just set a megascu.exe command line loose on the device and generate keys endlessly.
Out of market (grey) would expect zero technical support. Buy in USA, warranted in USA. Buy in Canada, warranted in Canada?
Ask him if he does requests. His cards are odd.
We wanted 9271-8i and 9266-8i (the 9285/9265 had a fatal bug that only affects rare raid-setups).
The M5000 performance key - mind you includes everyting. Cachecade 2.0, fastpath, SED, Snapshots. OEM's cannot use ELF key of that generation. Only the newer M5016 etc can do ELF [ibm term FOD] keys.
If you guys ever wonder, the lsi that are sold by HP are LSI brand. I have a 9260-8i, and it uses the LSI $50 cachecade 1/fastpath key off ebay.
The LSI is unique - they let you mix SAS and SSD in a single VD. Everyone else turns that off. Mixing SAS and SATA on the same wire reduces the SAS voltage to be compatible but say if you wanted to rock some SATA drives on connector 1 [4tb RE4] and SAS 4tb RE4 on connector 2, you could enjoy the benefits of both without any degradation of sas or latency of sas expanders.
You can literally do an in place upgrade from 146gb SAS drives to 256gb SATA SSD, one drive at a time without downtime.. most people would call it insane!
if anyone has any keys or can find refurbed 81y4426 for m5014/m5015 - please PM me. I'll buy. ibm is OEM 9.
Check out the 71605e Adaptec, it is a badass little card for the money. You can do JBOD (no RIS) and raid at the same time and it comes with 16 ports per card which for about $375 RAID or $275 HBA(no boot/no raid). The Raid model again, can do JBOD and RAID at the same time. This is really slick. they have a q version with maxcache (same as cachecade 2 except multi-terabytes of ssd to front).
What i want: SSD caching. SLC -> MLC -> TLC -> SAS -> SATA tiering software to keep to keep the hot mess of writes to the wearable but small ssd (SLC) , then organized hot write cache (1-2TB), then READ only cache (TLC 1-8TB) then SAS drives and SATA drives for core storage.