#347 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Page 2 Question 1: Answer 1: Question 2: Answer 2: Question 3: Answer 3: Question 4: Answer 4: Question 5: Answer 5: Upon review of the RFP it is my impression that the Thames Valley District School Board is looking to keep the servers physically located in the existing School Board data centre. Is this a fair assessment? It is our intention to continue to house all servers at our datacenter at 1250 Dundas Street. We are not looking to have a hosted service. Should the solution be configured in a rack, or does TVDSB all ready have rack space onsite where we can install this equipment TVDSB is looking for the proposed solutions to include any rack hardware required. If a blade chassis is proposed, there are two models to consider, a C3000 or a C7000, the only real difference is expandability, the first holds 8 blades while the second holds 16, is there advantage to the TVDSB to offer a chassis that has expandability for long term growth but may cost a little more up front 8 blades would be sufficient for this project. Is there 10GB network capability in your data center Not at this time. If required, 10Gig switches will be provisioned under a separate purchase. If iscsi requires 10 Gig. switch infrastructure to operate, then switches should be quoted upon as per RFP. Is there a preference for iscsi vs Fibre Channel technology for the SAN TVDSB currently has Fibre Channel technology, but will entertain either iscsi or Fibre channel proposals. Question 6: Will the HP ILO offering suffice for your needs for an IP KVM Answer 6: Question 7: Answer 8: Yes, HP ILO will meet requirements. In the SAN equipment section number 4.11 there is a reference to +B67, can you clarify what this is?? Our apologies it is just a typo. Question 9: Would you consider an extension to the RFP response time to Feb. 19? Answer 9: Question 10: Answer 10: Question 11: Answer 11: No, we cannot offer any extensions. Would you consider a third server virtualization technology other than VMware or Microsoft Hyper V such as Citrix? No. What is your RPO/RTO? I assume you are referring to Recovery Time Objectives. Server restoration within 30 minutes. Question 12: Do you have any special hardware such as I/O cards, USB devices for the candidate servers?
Page 3 Answer 12: Question 13: Answer 13: Question 14: Answer 14: Question 15: Answer 15: Question 16: Answer 16: Question 17: Answer 17: Question 18: Answer 18: Question 19: Answer 19: Two of the candidate servers have requirements for USB key devices for software licensing. Would you please provide the utilization of the network I/O per server and how many NIC cards per server? One NIC per server, see the spreadsheet for network I/O in MB/sec at the end of this document. If Section 3.5, please state which cluster technology it is expecting which are Microsoft Cluster or clustering within the virtualization software. TVDSB does not currently have a clustering environment; we are interested in understanding what would be an appropriate cluster technology in a virtualized configuration. Is there a requirement to reduce the size of LUNs or the Volumes itself in the virtual environment? TVDSB wishes to size all drives appropriate for the server application. Many of our servers have disk capacity that is greater than required. For training, are you expecting a knowledge transfer training or formal product training? Bidders should state any type of training that is available. Does TVDSB have either Hyper-V or VMware deployed today in a test configuration? TVDSB has several VMware servers in a test configuration. No production use of virtual server technology. Does TVDSB IT staff have any experience working with either Hyper-V or VMware ESX platforms? TVDSB staff has limited exposure to VMware, some early Microsoft virtual server but no Hyper-V. If a potential solution provider cannot resell upgrades to the existing HP MSL6000 Tape library or any additional licensing for HP Dataprotector infrastructure, does this make a solution non compliant? It would not make the bid non-compliant. TVDSB currently uses HP dataprotector and is happy with this technology. We are open to other backup solutions. Question 20: Is the current backup infrastructure LAN or SAN based (or both?)? Answer 20: Question 21: Answer 21: Question 22: Current backup solution is LAN based. There are several backup architectures that could potentially be employed when either a VMware ESX or Hyper-V environment is deployed. In consultation prior to the RFP, what method was recommended as the best fit for TVDSB? The consultation did not propose a backup solution. It is expected that the proposal will provide a backup solution that allows for recovery of data and server configurations in industry accepted practice. Are the SAN capacity requirements mentioned in Worksheet B Section 4 usable or raw capacity (12TB initial expandable to 30TB)? If usable, which Raid level is preferred for the initial 12TB capacity?
Page 4 Answer 22: Useable disk space. For quotation purposes, please use RAID 5. : Question 23: Answer 23: We would like to request a short extension to the Closing Date for this RFP, perhaps February 16 th or 17 th? No, we cannot offer any extensions.
System Name Model Processor Memory (GB) Application # NIC's Speed Speed MB/sec 5000D03 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 3 Windows server 2003 Domain controller 2 1000 0.04 5000D04 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 3 Windows server 2003 Domain controller 2 1000 5.85 5000M01 HP DL380 G4 4 @ 3.4 Ghz. 3 Windows server 2003 File and Print 2 1000 1.53 5000M02 HP ML530 G2 4 @ 3 Ghz. 3.5 Windows server 2003 SMS 1 100 0.02 5000M03 HP ML530 G2 4 @ 3 Ghz. 3 Windows server 2003 GIS Application 1 100 0.01 5000M05 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.67 Ghz. 9 Windows server 2003 SMS 2 1000 0.01 5000m06 HP ML530 G2 2 @ 3 Ghz. 3.5 Windows server 2003.net middleware 1 100 0.02 5000M07 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 4 Windows server 2003 MOM 2 1000 0.01 5000M08 HP DL140 4 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows server 2003 IIS 2 1000 0.01 5000M09 HP DL380 G4 4 @ 3.4 Ghz. 4 Windows server 2003 Plato database 2 1000 0.01 5000M10 HP GL380 G5 8 @ 3 Ghz. 6 Windows 2003.net middleware 4 1000 0.01 5000M11 HP DL140 2 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003 Avotus Telco software 2 1000 0.01 5000M12 HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.4 Ghz. 3.5 Windows 2003 Research and Assessment 2 1000 0.01 5000M14 HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003 IIS 2 1000 0.01 5000M15 HP DL560 8 @ 2.2 Ghz. 8 Windows 2003 Apache 2 1000 4.85 5000M16 HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003 MS SQL 2005 2 1000 0.01 5000M18 HP BL35p 2 @ 1.8 Ghz. 1 Windows 2003 IIS 2 1000 0.01 5000M19 HP BL25p 2 @ 2.8 Ghz. 4 Windows 2003 IIS 2 1000 0.01 5000M20 HP BL25p 2 @ 2.8 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, scanner server 2 1000 0.01 5000M21 HP BL25p 2 @ 2.8 Ghz. 4 Windows 2003.net middleware 2 1000 0.01 5000M22 HP BL35p 2 @ 1.8 Ghz. 1 Windows 2003 IIS, FTP 2 1000 0.01 5000M23 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 3.25 Windows 2003 IIS 2 1000 0.01 5000M24 HP DL380 G4 2 @3.4 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003 Windows Update Server 2 1000 0.1 5000M25 HP DL380 G4 2 @3.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003 IIS, Print 2 1000 0.01 5000M27 HP DL385 G1 4 @ 2 Ghz. 16 Windows 2003 SMS 2 1000 0.2 5000M28 HP DL380 G4 1 @ 3.2 Ghz. 3.5 Windows 2003 IIS, Small SQL 2 1000 0.1 5000M29 HP DL140 G3 4 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, IIS, Laserfiche, Chubb Security 2 1000 0.01 5000M31 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, MSI storage and distribution 2 1000 1.96 5000M32 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 2.33 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, HP Dataprotector 2 1000 0.1 5000M35 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3Ghz. 3.25 Windows 2003, Adobe Connects 2 1000 0.01 5000M36 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, Blackbaud, ISYS 2 1000 0.01 5000M38 HP BL25p 2 @ 2.6 Ghz. 4 Windows 2003, SSL VPN config server 2 1000 0.01 5000M41 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, IIS, Database 2 1000 0.01 5000M42 HP DL380 G3 2 @ 2.8 Ghz. 1 Windows 2003, Omnitool Fax Server 2 1000 0.01 5000M44 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, IIS, SQL development 2 1000 0.01 5000M45 HP DL380 G5 2 @ 3 Ghz. 4 Windows 2003, log server 2 1000 1.46 5000M48 HP DL380 G5 8 @ 3 Ghz. 20 Windows 2003, SMS 2 1000 0.46 5000M51 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 3.25 Windows 2003, MS SQL test database 2 1000 0.01 5000M53 HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.2 Ghz. 3.5 Windows 2003, middleware test server 2 1000 0.01 5000M54 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, streaming video server 2 1000 0.01 8010M01 HP DL380 G5 4 @ 2.8 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, Applications server 2 1000 0.8 XXXXM01 HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, Application test server 2 1000 0.2 Netops HP DL380 G4 2 @ 3.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, Network monitoring 2 1000 1.3 TWEA HP DL560 G1 8 @ 2.2 Ghz. 2 Windows 2003, Web server 2 1000 2.8 5000M100 HP EvoD510 1 @ 1.8 Ghz. 0.256 Windows 2003, Nortel BCM Manager 2 100 0.2