Kerala Development And Innovation Strategic Council Tender

Tier1 Storage (500TB capacity) - Storage Quality Certification: The Storage OEM should be established in the Gartner or any other equivalent global research firm for the last five years; Storage Controller: 1. The Storage system offered must be a true unified and scale-out system offering NAS (file), SAN (block) and object workloads. The Storage supplied should be an appliance with a Single Microcode offering all protocols and should not be based on server-based General Purpose File systems or Operating systems such as Linux, Windows etc., 2. Storage system must be offered in a No-Single-Point of Failure offering up to six 9s of availability with a minimum of 2 Nodes/Controllers and Scale-Out to a minimum of 12 Nodes/Controllers; Cache/Memory Support: 1. The system should be offered with a minimum 1.2 TB Distributed/Global/Federated DRAM cache across dual controllers. The cache should be scalable to 6 TB in a scale-out architecture with a minimum 12 Controllers. The system should offer the capability to protect the write cache in case of a controller failure. Also, a failure of a controller should not lead to write-through mode for cache; Drive Support: The system must support NVMe SSDs each of 100GbE interface speed to meet the capacity and performance requirements for the applications. The system must support a minimum of 240 disks for scalability purposes; Disk Drive Protection: The proposed system should offer minimum raid 6/dual drive failure protection, however for high-density drives it should also support triple drive failure protection for better resiliency and performance; Capacity: 1. The system should be configured with 500TB Usable capacity using NVMe SSD Drives with Raid 6/ Dual drive failure protection; Performance: The storage should be able to deliver a minimum of 345,000 IOPS and 10GBps (Gigabyte) with R/W 80/20, Sequential 32K block; Protocols: The storage should be configured natively with FC, NVMe-oF, NVMe/TCP, iSCSI, NFS (NFSv3, NFSv4, NFSv4.1 supporting RFC5661), CIFS/SMB protocols for use with different applications. In addition to the above, Object (S3 compatible) protocol should also be supported either natively or through any additional appliance; Front-End and Backend connectivity, The proposed storage system should have a minimum 4 x100GbE back-end ports and 8 x 10GbE iSCSI and 8 x 32 Gb FC front-end ports available across dual controllers; Investment Protection: 1. The storage offered should be a true scale-out system that allows the intermixing of controllers across generations within the same system, the system should also support the intermixing of All-flash and Hybrid arrays is the same cluster and be scalable to a minimum of 12 controllers for maximum investment protection, 2. The proposed system should offer the capability to tier the data to either On-Prem or Cloud Object Storage. The system should be configured with any software capability or license for On-Prem tiering to Object Storage from day one; Storage General Features: 1. Ability to expand LUNS/Volumes on the storage online and instantly, 2. Redundant hot-swappable components like controllers, disks, power supplies, fans etc. and allow re-usage of Disk Shelves with higher models of the same product line, 3. The proposed system should offer up to 20PBs capacity scalable within a single namespace, 4. The proposed storage should enable and integrate with server virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere. The proposed storage must support VASA 3.0 and above, VMware VVOL feature and the feasibility of creating more than 1000 VVOLs. The proposed array should be able to present both the VVOL storage pool and traditional LUN’s, 5. The storage system should be capable of providing multi-pathing software with failover and load-balancing functionality, 6. The proposed storage should provide both in-line and post-process efficiency features such as Compression, De-Duplication and Compactation, 7. The proposed storage should be able to provide secure multi-tenancy for air gap security and isolation from other workloads; Data Protection: 1. The proposed system/solution should offer incremental replication capabilities in both fan-out and cascading topologies. The WAN replication should be secured by end-to-end encryption and bandwidth optimization supported natively. All the necessary licenses should be quoted from day 1; 2. The Storage array should be offered with Synchronous, Asynchronous replication features & Zero Data Loss protection between the DC, DR and Near DR, 3. The offered system should ensure a unified architecture flexibility for replication both on-prem & to the cloud natively without the use of any third-party hardware or software solutions. The replication should support end-to-end encryption and bandwidth optimization, 4. Proposed storage should offer capabilities to create backup copies across sites and also allow replication of data across backup targets. Any license required should be configured; Security and Encryption, 1. The proposed storage array must support data at rest encryption for file shares including both CIFS and NFS, managed by an On-board Key Manager or External Key Manager offering industry-standard certification/compliance by using a cryptographic security module supporting FIPS 140-2 level encryption. For multi-tenant configuration, individual tenant's keys should be managed by the offered storage, 2. The storage system should offer high-performance compliance solutions in accordance with various industry standards to meet regulations such as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 17a-4, HIPAA, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 3. Storage management software should support MFA to ensure secure access to Management Software. The Storage array should support SHA-2 level security for managing user credentials, 4. The storage should be configured to comply with SEC Rule 17a-4 for file systems. Also, the offered storage should ensure that no one including the administrator should can delete the data post WORM enabled; Management, 1. The Proposed Storage system should have native GUI to monitor & perform operations on data protection jobs, 2. The Storage Management Software should offer operational simplicity and rich data management functionalities for Unified Storage. It should provide a single dashboard to monitor the health, availability, capacity usage, performance, and data protection status of various platforms along with resource planning, 3. The management tool should display system alerts and notifications for proactive management on the dashboard for users to quickly access them and it should provide information about support cases raised on the cluster, 4. The offered system should support ransomware and insider threat detection to protect data with early detection and actionable intelligence on ransomware and other malware incursions. It should detect malicious activity and protect the data by automatically taking a snapshot; Rack Mountable: The storage should be supplied with a rack mount kit. All the necessary patch cords (Ethernet and Fiber) shall be provided and installed by the vendor; Warranty & AMC: The Hardware and software quoted should have 5 years of support along with upgrades and updates; Storage Type: NAS; Number of nodes: 4; Drive type: NVMe, QLC; End-to-end NVMe; Total usable capacity (TB): 500 TiB; Systems disk shelfs connectivity (Gbps): 100GB (Controllers to Disk Shelf); Systems backend network connectivity: 25GB (Node to Node); Scalable NAS (up to max), 9PB; System CPU proposed: =48 cores; System CPU per node, 12 cores; System memory proposed, =256 GB; System memory per node, =64 GB; NVDIMM/NVRAM, =8 GB Per Node; Total NVDIMM/NVRAM, =32 GB; Network configuration proposed, 8 x 25G SFP28 & 16 x 25G SFP28; Cloud tiering or fabric pool, ; Compression, ; Deduplication, ; Thin provisioning, ; Data access protocols, FC, iSCSI, NVMe/FC, NVMe/TCP, FCoE, NFS, SMB, Amazon S3; Dual Network Active-Active Switch for Customer Connection, 2x24Port SFP28 switch with Minimum of 4x40G/100G QSFP28 port for Uplink; Tiering support, Should support auto tiering and tiering policies. Software’s for the tiering management has to be included.

SERVER (Compute Nodes)* - Processor, Make: Intel/AMD ,, , Series: Platinum/Gold/EPYC (Latest Series), , Number of Processors: 4, , No. of Cores/Processor: 18, , No of threads/Core: 2, , Base Frequency: = 2.9GHz, , Turbo Frequency: = 3.50 GHz, , Cache: = 24 MB, , Form Factor: Rack/Blade, , Size: 2U/4U, , Support: AVX/AVX2, Motherboard, Chip-set Compatible: Intel/AMD, , Max CPU Sockets: 4, Memory, Type: DDR4 RDIMM ECC, , Single Memory module : 32GB, , Speed: =3200 MT/s, , Memory size: 512GB, , Max memory Support: 1TB (32GB Module), Co-Processor / GPU, NA: NA, Storage, SAS SSD: 2 No’s, , SASSSD Size: 800GB, , SAS SSD Req: OS Partition, , SAS SSD RAID Level: RAID 1, , SATA SSD usable size: 5TB, , Min SATA SSD Drives: =5, , SATA SSD RAID Level: RAID 5, RAID Cards, RAID level: 0,1,5,6,10,50,60, , Ports/Lanes: = 8, , Cache: = 8GB NV, , Interface Support: SAS, SATA,NVMe, Interfaces & Ports, Total network cards: 2, , Network card1 Type: Ethernet, , Network card1 Speed: 1G and 10G Supported, , Network card1 ports required: 4x1G and 10G supported, , PXE Support: Yes, , Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq): Yes, , PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable: Yes, , Server network ports should support DPDK and it should deliver zero packet loss as per RFC 2544 and deliver 100%-line rate for all the packet sizes over 64 Bytes, Vendor must submit latest DPDK test report for the same: Yes, , Network card2 Type: SFP28, , Network card2 Speed: 10G/25G, , Network Transceivers: 25Gb SFP28 SR 100m Transceiver & Cables, , Network card2 ports required: 2, , PXE Support: Yes, , Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq): Yes, , PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable: Yes, , Server network ports should support DPDK, and it should deliver zero packet loss as per RFC 2544 and deliver 100%-line rate for all the packet sizes over 64 Bytes, Vendor must submit latest DPDK test report for the same: Yes, Operating system, Certifications/Compliance (OS): RHEL 7,8+, Ubuntu 20+, Oracle Linux 8,9+, Debian 11,12+, Windows , , Certifications/Compliance (Virtualization/Cloud Platform): VM ware, PROXMOX, KVM, Citrix, Server Monitor (With Advanced License), Separate Monitoring Interface: Inbuilt Web based secure Server hardware monitoring alerting system

SERVER (Compute Nodes GPU Cluster) - Processor: Make: Intel/AMD, Series: Platinum/Gold/EPYC (Latest Series), Number of Processors: 2, No. of Cores/Processor: 18, No of threads/Core: 2, Base Frequency: = 2.9GHz, Turbo Frequency: = 3.50 GHz, Cache: = 24 MB, Form Factor: Rack/Blade, Size: 2U/4U, Support: AVX/AVX2; Motherboard: Chip-set Compatible: Intel/AMD, Max CPU Sockets: 2; Memory: Type: DDR4 RDIMM ECC, Single Memory module: 32GB, Speed: =3200 MT/s, Memory size: 512GB, Max memory Support: 1TB (32GB Module); GPU/FPGA/Acceleration Cards: Make: NVIDIA, Series: H100 NVL 94GB, Number of GPU: 1, Number of CUDA cores: 16,896, Number Tensor Cores: 528, Memory: =48GB; Storage, SAS SSD: 2 No’s, SASSSD Size: 800GB, SAS SSD Req: OS Partition, SAS SSD RAID Level: RAID 1, SATA SSD usable size: 5TB, Min SATA SSD Drives: =5, SATA SSD RAID Level: RAID 5; RAID Cards: RAID level: 0,1,5,6,10,50,60, Ports/Lanes: = 8, Cache: = 8GB NV, Interface Support: SAS, SATA, NVMe; Interfaces & Ports: Total network cards: 2, Network card1 Type: Ethernet, Network card1 Speed: 1G and 10G Supported, Network card1 ports required: 4x1G and 10G supported, PXE Support, Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq), PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable, Server network ports should support DPDK and it should deliver zero packet loss as per RFC 2544 and deliver 100%-line rate for all the packet sizes over 64 Bytes, Vendor must submit latest DPDK test report for the same, Network card2 Type: SFP28, Network card2 Speed: 10G/25G, Network Transceivers: 25Gb SFP28 SR 100m Transceiver & Cables, Network card2 ports required: 2, PXE Support, Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDq), PCI-SIG* SR-IOV Capable, Server network ports should support DPDK, and it should deliver zero packet loss as per RFC 2544 and deliver 100%-line rate for all the packet sizes over 64 Bytes, Vendor must submit latest DPDK test report for the same; Operating system: Certifications/Compliance (OS): RHEL 7,8+, Ubuntu 20+, Oracle Linux 8,9+, Debian 11,12+, Windows, Certifications/Compliance (Virtualization/Cloud Platform): VM ware, PROXMOX, KVM, Citrix; Server Monitor (With Advanced License): Separate Monitoring Interface: Inbuilt Web-based secure Server hardware monitoring alerting system.