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Recommendation to Approve the Purchase of Virtual Machine Host Servers in the Amount of $297,523 from Keep It Simple to Replace the Existing Virtual Machine Host Servers that Have Reached End of Life and to Redesign the City's Virtual Infrastructure for Increased Resiliency and Redundancy. (Information Technology 60626074)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jennifer Ott, City Manager
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The City of Alameda's (City) existing Dell Virtual Machine Host Servers were implemented in 2015 and 2018 and have reached their end-of-life expectancy that is typically 5-7 years of useful life. These host servers are needed to host our virtual infrastructure platform, VMWare, that runs mission-critical servers on the network. The replacement of the servers plus the redesign will provide the City with increased resiliency and redundancy in the event of network or hardware failures.
BACKGROUND
The City employs server virtualization to optimize its server infrastructure for efficient operations of its computer, network and storage hardware. Virtualization allows the City to have one physical server that creates secure virtual servers, which are maintained and administered by the City. This ensures redundancy and efficiency of computer, network and storage resources and ensure availability of mission-critical applications and files such as the finance and payroll system, police records management and Fire Telestaff software.
VMWare is an industry leader and trusted partner in virtualization and has been the chosen on-premises server virtualization provider for the City for several years. Dell is also an industry leader in the area of server and desktop computers and has been used by the City for several years as well. Dell servers will be used to host the VMWare virtualization technology. In addition to replacing servers because they have reached end-of-life, a redesign of the City's virtual services is necessary to cre...
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