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CC - Approval of a Purchase Order with CDW-G to Purchase Storage Disks, Licenses, Installation, Start-up Configuration and Maintenance for the City's Storage Area Network in an Amount Not-to-Exceed $37,938.10.
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Meeting Date: October 10, 2016
Contact Person/Dept: David Leuck
Phone Number: (310) 253-5961
Fiscal Impact: Yes [X] No [] General Fund: Yes [X] No []
Public Hearing: [] Action Item: [] Attachments: []
Commission Action Required: Yes [] No [X] Date:
Public Notification: (E-Mail) Meetings and Agendas - City Council (10/04/16); CDW-G (Jeff Butchko, 9/28/16)
Department Approval: Michele Williams (09/29/16)
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends the City Council approve a purchase order with CDW-G for the purchase of storage disks, licenses, installation, startup configuration and maintenance for the City's Storage Area Network in an amount not-to-exceed $37,938.10.
BACKGROUND:
On April 22, 2013 Council approved replacing Information Technology's (IT's) end-of-life Storage Area Network (SAN) unit with a new 3PAR series unit from Hewlett Packard.
A SAN is a device containing a large number of hard disks. Using networking technology it allows multiple physical or virtual servers to attach to it as if the hard disks were installed in the server. This allows servers to be created and space allocated to them quickly. With a virtual server, there is no need to buy any hardware, as it is all provisioned through software. The SAN allows drive sizes to be increased when needed, and space to be recovered for new servers when virtual servers are decommissioned. SAN technology also allows for making copies of existing servers before they are updated, or as test servers so new features can be tested before being moved to production.
The SAN is the heart of the virtual server technology that IT uses. In a virtual environment serv...
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