PRIESTLEY COLLEGE · Awarded contract

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Supply and Installation of VMware Hosts, Fibre Channel Switches, and SAN Hardware for Priestley College

Awarded 23 Jun 2016

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Awarded23 Jun 2016

Value£25,000.00

SupplierVirtue Technologies

AgencyPRIESTLEY COLLEGE

RegionNorth West

CategoryIT & Software

Ended 10y 4mo ago1mo term

Awarded 23 June 2016Expired 24 July 2016

About

Priestley College awarded a contract to Virtue Technologies for the supply and installation of network hardware, including VMware physical host upgrades, Brocade Fibre Channel switches, and primary and secondary Fibre Channel SANs.

The scope involved replacing two Primergy RX300 S6 hosts with Primergy RX2540MI hosts, upgrading memory to ensure all four physical hosts have 512GB RAM, and integrating the new hosts into the existing VMware 5.5 Enterprise environment with VMotion functionality.

The contract also covered the supply and installation of one Brocade 8GB Fibre Channel switch and new SANs from Fujitsu, Dell, EMC, or HP, with a requirement for easy expansion.

Warranty terms included a 5-year 4-hour response for physical host servers and SAN hardware, and a 1-year onsite warranty for the Brocade switch.

The contract value was £25,000.

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