I'm about to do something entirely out of character: Buy new hardware as opposed to used! I could use some help and advice. @mrkrad, are you out there?
I'm going to deploy some insanely cool hardware from Solace Systems. They sell a hardware JMS broker that makes software brokers looks pitifully slow by comparison - we're talking 100,000 persistent JMS messages/second. Persistent "guaranteed delivery" messages!
Anyway, the system uses a Fiber Channel SAN as a backing store for "overflow" messages. That means that I need to buy a Fiber Channel array with just 200GB worth of SSD drives but >60K IOPS.
I am looking at the HP MSA 2040, which is an entry-level box with enough IOPS to keep up with the Solace hardware.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get a good price on HP storage gear? This model is too new to appear used on eBay it seems.
I'm going to deploy some insanely cool hardware from Solace Systems. They sell a hardware JMS broker that makes software brokers looks pitifully slow by comparison - we're talking 100,000 persistent JMS messages/second. Persistent "guaranteed delivery" messages!
Anyway, the system uses a Fiber Channel SAN as a backing store for "overflow" messages. That means that I need to buy a Fiber Channel array with just 200GB worth of SSD drives but >60K IOPS.
I am looking at the HP MSA 2040, which is an entry-level box with enough IOPS to keep up with the Solace hardware.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get a good price on HP storage gear? This model is too new to appear used on eBay it seems.
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