SAN (Storage Array Network) Replacement - Market Research

Description

The Council will require to undertake some market research to look at replacing end of life product with new hardware to meet current 106.33 TB Total Capacity at each of the Council's two data centres and extend with 10% growth capacity over a period of 5 years. The purpose of this market research is that the current Storage Array Network (SAN) is end of life. The Council is looking to conduct a market research exercise to understand options which may be available in the market to replace end of life SAN storage at primary data centre 106TB and secondary data centre 106TB require SAN storage hardware to replace existing end of life Dell Equalogic connected to VM environment using Nexus 10GB switch, 10GB on multiple ESXi hosts (see attached SAN Configuration document). Professional services to provide hardware solution to replace current storage and cover 10% growth. Total storage including growth calculation = calculated at 131TB per site. Require installation and configuration at both data centres (2 sites). Require testing replication between data centres. Require knowledge transfer to ICT staff. There are no licensing requirements. No option to extend as support will provided under warranty cover. Location of delivery will be Aurora House, installation location will be at the 2 WDC data centres, with one unit installed at Aurora House Data Centre and one unit installed at William Patrick Library Data Centre site. Would normally opt for a knowledge transfer service and not formal training for this service. WDC ICT staff will work with professional services during installation and configuration and testing, replication from data centre 1 to data centre 2. WDC ICT staff will shadow the migration of one or two LUNs from existing SAN onto new SAN using work instruction of process and WDC will complete the remaining data transfer.