Recently, I was lucky to obtain a set of 2 fibre cable switches and a fibre cable SAN. Why did I buy them, well ... because someone was selling 😂

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2x FC Lenovo DB610S (Brocade 610) switches with 16 ports licensed
1x Lenovo Thinksystem DE4000F with 12x3.84Tb SSD storage

Those are very cool toys, but I'm starting to run into issues when I try to update those to the latest firmware.
Normally, before I start to play with new toys, I always update them, but I can't seem to find update binaries.

For the switches I get forwarded to Broadcom, and it could be me, but I just can't seem to find any download button on the Broadcom site for these switches.

The Lenovo SAN firmware updates are locked, and can only be unlocked when I pay for a support contract. And based on the quotations they already provided to look with me at the issue (€500 /hour), I suspect that updates are out of the question 🤕

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The block storage I'm starting to use as a very overengineered NAS disk, next step is to measure the power consumption to see if I can keep it running after playtime is over. The storage volumes will be accessible with fibre cable NIC's to my 2 servers, a DL380 gen 9 and Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX2540 M5.

The switches I'm going to sell because I have no use for them, I looked on eBay and found listing prices starting from €2000, are people still buying these? Any suggestions?

Does anyone have a similar setup or devices and some tips and tricks for me? My early steps looking for information led me to believe those are pretty niche products.