Cool man. I just hate buying used cpu's (I suspect you've given the machine a good whirl by now and not had any crashes). I've got a bunch of left hands that i'm turning into plain old servers.
If anyone wants to buy the lefthand's they are P4300 G2's with 8 450gb 15K SAS drives each, 4 total units. The warranty is almost up but not - so it can be extended for $2800 a year and includes 10 VSA (hyper-v/ESXi) licenses which allow you to setup virtual lefthand's say on Amazon or another website. You can then do cool stuff like N:1 and 1:N replication (2 Lefthands at site 1, and 2 lefthands at site 2 can replicate to 1 VSA at site 3, plus site 3 can replicate back to site 1 and 2). You can even do stretched ISCSI and network raid-5 or network raid 10+1 or 1+2 (synchronous writes to Site 1, site2, and site 3 for instance) with full SRM support. You can literally fail over with SRM the storage and/or hosts. Pretty high end.
I'd love to sell this to someone who would use it for what its meant for - the servers sell for about $48K new - They are SE1220 servers with code in the lefthand software to detect you are not running them on DL180's etc. The VSA's are bound to the MAC ADDRESS (basically registered to the manual mac addresses in esxi 5.1) - 10 - plus it has 99999 remaining re-allocations should you need to change the mac addresses on the 10 to every possible manual mac address that esxi supports
thought I can't imagine any reason why you'd ever do that unless you were really bored. You can only legally use 10 at a time. lol. I wonder if they would let you have 5 VSA's in cold-standby (not powered on) with the same mac addresses at another site like amazon should your world get taken away by a tornado and you need to stand up world somewhere else like amazon or your basement.
So i'm basically throwing out the software and using the machines as vm hardware. It's solid. But Someone who wanted a decent SAN with super high availability - probably realizes that 4 lefthands plus 10 vsa (bound by mac address of the manual esxi range) would be a bargain and support would be like $3000 a year thereafter (all san's have stupid expensive support fees).
So i'd be up for trades. The hardware is super solid and warranted. The software is super solid as well. It is 1000x better than any other ISCSI software , and bulletproof. It's quite amazing to watch an upgrade take out the servers in sequence and everything keeps running. The only thing i'd change is add some SSD caching and 10gb nic's ($100 each) and maybe throw in SSD's instead of the slow 15K SAS 450gb drives
I figure I could get $10K easily for such a nice solution, but i'm just needed 4 servers. or some other solid storage solution like a P2000 G3 (i'm a simple man!) or a FCoE TOR switch or two.
The SE1220 is just a DL180 G6 with nicer nic's and ilo2 and super beefy fans that don't get quiet. It's wired a little different. It can be modified in front to expand to 12 drives instead of 8 LFF. Throw in 4TB RE4's and have monstrous ISCSI performance!
I figured I'd throw it out there. Someone might need enterprise storage at a budget price!
I'm just wanting Patrick's L5630's since these SE1220's only came with E5520's and my whole vmware is #5600 series cpu's