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Buying Riverbed things on eBay
Posted on 2011-01-10 23:00:00
Tags: Humor, Riverbed
Just for the fun of it, I checked out some Riverbed appliances and hardware on eBay.
- DELL RIVERBED SERVER 3GHZ 2GB RAM - Nice piece of hardware for 188 dollars. You can't use it as a Steelhead appliance anymore: "Operating System Not Installed". Just put FreeBSD or Linux or it and you have a great server.
- Riverbed Steelhead Central Management Console 8000 - For 500 dollars you have a Dell PowerEdge 850 only, because: "unit is unlicensed" which means that the CMC software won't function. And before you can get the license keys from Riverbed, you need to get a support contract for it.
- Riverbed Dual Copper GIG-E Bypass PCI-X CMP-00028 - For 25 dollars you get a nice bypass card which only works on the xx10 and xx20 series hardware, not on the xx50 hardware. Make sure you check the Bypass Card Installation Guide before you buy these things!
- Riverbed Steelhead-2000 P4SCE 2U Server w/P4 2.2GHZ/2GB - For 500 dollars you have a chassis without any capabilities, because "hard disk drives are not included.". That is not a Steelhead appliance, that is a normal computer.
- Used Riverbed Steelhead 2010 WAN Acceleration Appliance - Nothing spectular here, except for the picture on the side. With a picture like this (despite the bad photoshopping), who can resist such a deal?
- RIVERBED SHA-06020 STEELHEAD MODEL 6020 - Imagine paying 4000 dollars for a 120 thousand dollars box. Oh, but it doesn't come with any harddisks. Which means you have to buy new harddisks from Riverbed. But a support contract first. Plus you still have no way to get the operating system on the machine. So you buy a computer, not a Steelhead appliance. Again.
So far no luck, still haven't been able to find a full working Steelhead appliance on eBay. Time to go to bed!