Category: Sun

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers Sun V100 1 x 500Mhz Processor, 1GB Memory, 2 x 40Gb HDD $ 1,270 Sun V120 1 [...]

In our last newsletter (the Green Edition) we focussed on the greener future that we’re all starting to think about more seriously. In line with that, Sun Microsystems undertook a survey of their customers during the middle of this year to get an idea of how green the Sun community really is. Here are some interesting statistics [...]

At the moment we’re carrying some great low end UNIX machines that can help you to get out of that tight bind you’re in. We’ve got a range of machines including V100‘s, V120‘s, V210‘s and V240‘s that represent not only a quick and easy solution to that extra server you might need - but they’re also [...]

Sun is committed to providing its end users with energy efficient hardware, eco friendly programs and systems which will help businesses reduce power consumption and environmental impact. With their innovation and black box data centre, Sun hardware can assist a business in lowering their greenhouse emissions while increasing computing and storage growth. This has been [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers Sun V490 4 x 1.35Ghz Processors, 32GB Memory, 2 x 73GB HDD, 2 x 2GB Dual FC [...]

Since the relaunch of our web site in December 2007, we’ve been slowly adding our older newsletters. This month, we added our newsletter from July 2006. Even though these articles are 2 years old, there is still quite a lot of information that is just as relevant as ever. Highlights of July 2006 15 Point [...]

Here’s a quick summary of services we offer our customers either here at Computer Merchants or onsite. IBM System i has been a great part of our business, but these days we are also seeing lots of BladeCenter services coming through. We have installed IBM System i, System p, System x, BladeCenter, HMC and Sun hardware, [...]

Monthly Hardware Specials As many of you would have already seen, Computer Merchants have introduced monthly specials across IBM, HP and Sun hardware. These specials are unique to Computer Merchants as we are dedicated to working with our suppliers to provide specials meeting your requirements and budgetary needs. Timely And Flexible These specials are timely [...]

As I mentioned in our last newsletter, the firmware on the Sun StorEdge 3000 series arrays has been an issue for some end users. Interactive is on the ball. They are encouraging customers to upgrade the firmware levels on all their arrays within this family even before something goes wrong. They also encourage customers to [...]

Can you help us with Sun hardware? We are currently looking to replenish stock, stock that has been moving out of the warehouse over the last 6 months. While it’s great that we’ve moved so much Sun stock and managed to keep so many of you happy, we’ve now found that our current stock is low. [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers Sun Fire V210 Server with: 2 X 1GHz, 2GB RAM, 2 X 36GB HDD $ 3,450 Sun [...]

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Success Story Our engineer Richard recently had the pleasure of travelling to Papua New Guinea to work with the great people from Bank South Pacific at their Port Moresby office. Richard was responsible for the installation and set-up of their new i570 Power 6+ System i, with 2 Frames, 5 LPARs and over 5 TB [...]

Whenever you migrate from a test environment across to production it’s important to check your firmware levels - especially on StorEdge 3000 series arrays. Our best advice is to have a technical professional undertake the installation, which will minimise downtime and any potential data loss. On your Sun servers, check your firmware levels too. From the Sun [...]

We’re hearing from so many of you that Solaris 10 is a lot easier to use than previous versions of Solaris. And it’s also a very economical operating system. If you’re running Solaris 8 or 9 maybe you should consider upgrading to Solaris 10. Solaris 10 is free, and provided your applications can be supported, [...]

Disk replacement under Solaris 9 and 10 is different to previous versions of Solaris With Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), a lot of people are replacing disks and skipping the correct procedures because they’re not aware of them, and this is leading to problems at a later time. When you replace a disk, you really need to [...]

Well sort of! Everyone on the street is talking about the new Sun X4100 and Sun X4200 servers. They take a fraction of the time to install, they’re very fast, and with Solaris 10 free to download, you can have your server up and running in no time. We’re also stocking some of the larger Sun Fire [...]

Congratulations to Bruce who celebrated 10 years with Computer Merchants in February Bruce started with the company in 1998 to develop the open systems market. Our open systems team now consists of 7 sales specialists, focussing on: IBM System p (RS/6000), IBM System x (x86/Intel), IBM mainframe, as well as Sun and HP products. Both Carl [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Complete Sun Servers Sun SunFire V100 w/ 500MHZ CPU 256GB Ram, 2 x 40 GB HDD, CD ROM $1,570 [...]

Can you help us with sourcing Sun hardware? We are currently looking to replenish stock that has been moving out of the warehouse over the last 6 months. While it’s great that we’ve moved so much Sun stock and managed to keep many of you happy we’ve now found that our current stock is low. [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun – Entry Server 445-EHZ2C1-04CB Sun Fire V445 2*1.593 CPU 4GB Ram 2x73GB $14,570 + GST Sun – Midrange  [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Pricing Guide” for more information on the following items. Sun – System Sun V100 SUN System 466MHz, 1GB Memory, 2 x 73GB $1,300 Sun V210 SUN System [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. HP Servers HP rp7400 with 2 x 440MHz CPU, 4GB Memory, 2 x 73GB Drives $4,320 HP rp5470 with [...]

In our last newsletter we said farewell to David McDade who retired after 22 years. As we move forward I would like to share with you our vision so that you know what to expect from us in the future. We have learnt over the last 28 years that our success has been built on [...]

“Delivering great personalized service since 1979, our people, values and systems guarantee you are happy with the end result.” Our Mission Statement was developed by our current Managing Director, David McDade who has always believed that our people come first. With this in mind, it is with much sadness that we are about to see [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun – Servers SUN Fire V480 Server, 2 x 900MHz, 4GB Memory, 4 x 73 GB HDD $7, 770 [...]

The Computer Merchants Team are feeling the heat! We’re currently moving two of these servers every week. Are you looking to add to your current hardware? If you are then you can’t go past a V440. With the possibilities of 1 – 4 CPUs, 2 – 32GB Memory and up to 4 x 36GB, 73GB [...]

We thought we might tell you a little about today’s Customer Service Team… Kylie Kylie Mills joined our Customer Service team six and a half years ago as our receptionist. After moving from Reception, Kylie took on the Logistics role before moving up to her current role as Accounts. This means Kylie is a backup [...]

Can storage solve your problem? I know it could at my home as I am continuously searching for storage solutions! If only my wardrobe could fit into 300 GB compressed! (If you hadn’t already guessed this article was written by Dimitra!) If you’re finding this problem in your business and you’re looking for more space [...]

To help put some clarity around the current range of IBM LTO3 tape drive we have put together a summary. LTO3 is the third release of LTO technology offering 400GB native capacity per cartridge, 800GB compressed. The latest release of IBM drives as shown below offer multiple cartridge capacity on all models. All models support [...]

Success Story  We received a phone call late last year from the University of South Australia asking about the Sun V880 System Boards that we had offered to many of you several months earlier. The guys at the University were concerned that as they had all of their maintenance with Sun Microsystems, they might not be [...]

Success Story  Recently one of our customers was looking for a Sun E420R. He had a tight budget, so to try to meet his financial constraints, I asked my co-workers to look for a machine locally. By purchasing a machine in Australia we’re able to save on the cost of freight. Our Customer Record Management system [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers Sun V880 2 x 750 MHz CPU, 4 GB Memory, 2 x 73 GB HDD $7,500 Sun [...]

Just like you, we rely on our IT systems to support our business objectives Without these systems we may as well turn off the lights and go home, as it is almost impossible for us to operate without them. In the mid 1990′s we decided that we needed to implement a Disaster Recovery plan. We [...]

Do you currently have Sun hardware you’re no longer using? Is it sitting in the corner and you’re wondering what to do with it? Or are you about to migrate to newer equipment and need to plan for the timely removal of the older hardware? Call us on 1800 777 111! We are always looking [...]

In our last newsletter, we featured a number of Sun Specials that included system boards for larger Sun Fire machines. Quite a number of our customers were intrigued by the prices we had these system boards listed for. One customer even thought we had made a mistake with our Specials! Not only do these system [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Server Sun FIRE 3800, 4 x 900 Mhz CPU, 1xi/o board, 8 GB Memory 2 x FC Host [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Sun Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers (0x0x0) Sun Fire 15K $45,000 Sun Fire 6800 $15,500 Sun Fire 4800 $8,850 Sun Fire 3800 $6,500 [...]

Batteries on Sun StorEdge A1000, A3500 and T3 Storage arrays When a battery has failed or when a battery has reached its “Life Span” and requires replacement as per the maintenance schedule, it is very important that you reset the “Battery Age”. If you don’t reset the “Battery Age”, your system may continue to report [...]

I would like to say a big thanks to all the people that I have spoken to since I started here. For the people I have not spoken to, I will be in touch in the very near future. I have come from a software development background, spending 2 years studying at Swinburne TAFE. My [...]

Current Sun technology is available on the used market Many Sun users have thought that only equipment that has reached end of life is good to buy used, but that’s not the case! Current Sun systems are now readily available on the used market. Of course, as they’ve become more available, the machines have become [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. See our Current Specials for the latest pricing. Sun Systems V210 with 1 x 1.34GHz CPU, 512MB Memory, 1 [...]