[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

[Kent Rankin]

> I'm looking for a way to rackmount an E4500 in a single rack (not a cabinet)
> as well.  There's always www.sharkrack.com, but they're expensive...
> 
> BTW, if you have the monitor and keyboards at the remote location, the
> VT200 wont be a true console - it will just be a terminal hanging off a
> serial port.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:20:50PM -0700, ds wrote:
> > We have two E3500's that are used within a production surrounding where
> > people are shuffling around them everyday.  I would like to see them in
> > a rack, up off the floor and out of the way (possibly in the air
> > conditioned, fire protected computer room about 30' away).  Currently we
> > straddle them down on the floor under a table when we need to use them
> > (what a way to treat a couple 3500's).
> > Since Sun's rack config starts at $7,500 dollars... I was thinking of
> > purchasing a PC rack to place it in.  We use Compaq 19" racks ($2,500)
> > for all our PC servers (we have a total of about 12 Compaq racks in
> > toll).  My thought would be to purchase the floor kits for the E3500's
> > ($100 ea.) and then place them on four way mounted shelves in the lower
> > portion of the Compaq rack.  Since we need the monitor and keyboards at
> > a remote location (about 40' away) we could purchase the 10m
> > keyboard/monitor expansion kit ($75 ea.).  Then place a cheap 220
> > terminal in the rack as a console for both units... total cost... about
> > $3,300 w/tax (I said about).
> > Any thoughts?

	Actually, I saw some Sun rack kits for both machines for about $450
each in a recent list of equipment that someone was trying to sell me.
	
	Should I try and find out about this one, guys?


							Hope it helps,
							Kent Rankin