Sl.No.

Item

1 Operating System &

Clustering Support

2 Capacity & Scalability

Front-end Ports & Back-end

3 Ports

4 Architecture

5 No Single point of Failure

6 Disk Drive Support

7 Cache

8 Raid Support

10 Replication

11 Thin provisioning

12 Data Tiering

Global and dedicated Hot

13 Spare
 Logical Volume &
14 Performance

16 Drive Support

17 Large Pool support

18 Licenes
19 Warranty
Description of Requirement

1. The storage array should support industry-leading Operating System

platforms including: Windows 2022, 2019 and 2016, RHEL 8.2 and 7.8, SLES
15.2 and 12.5, VMware 7.0 and 6.7, Citrix XenServer 8.x and 7.x

2. Offered Storage Shall support all above operating systems in Clustering.

The proposed array must be supplied with 20 TB of usable capacity using

industry standard SAS drives configured in Raid6.
2. Storage shall be scalable to minimum of 252 number of drives.
1. Offered Storage system shall be supplied with 4 * 10Gbps iSCSI ports per
controller.
2. Offered storage system shall have 2 * 12G SAS ports for Back-end
connectivity.
The storage array should support dual, redundant, hot-pluggable, dual-active
array controllers for high performance and reliability
Offered Storage Array shall be configurable in a No Single Point of
configuration including Cache memory, FAN, Power supply etc.
1. Storage system shall also support Enterprise SAS spinning drives, SSD and
near line SAS / 7.2K RPM drives.
2. Offered storage array shall also have support for self-encrypted SSD, SAS
and near line SAS / 7.2K RPM .
1. Offered Storage Array shall be given with Minimum of 16GB DRAM cache
per controller.
2. Storage system should be supplied with at-least 3TB of hot swappable
extended read cache using high speed SSDs.
1. Offered Storage Subsystem shall support Raid 1, 5, 6 & 10

2. All Raid Sets shall support thin provisioning. Vendor shall offer the license
of thin provisioning for complete supported capacity of the array.

1. Offered Storage array shall support at-least 512 point in time copies
(Snapshots)
Offered storage shall support storage based async replication and should be
capable of data replication from storage installed at primary site to DR site
without any external gateway/software.
Offered Storage shall be offered and configured with Thin Provisioning
capability.
Offered Storage shall also be configured Data tiering across different type of
drives within a given pool like SSD, SAS, NL-SAS etc.

1. Offered Storage Array shall support Global/Distributed hot Spare for

offered Disk drives.
2. Atleast 1 Global hot spare drive shall be configured for every 30 drives
 1. Storage Subsystem shall support minimum of 1000 Logical Units.
2. Offered Storage shall have inbuilt performance management software.
Configuration Dashboard shall show overall IOPS and MB/sec performance.

Storage should support following drives :-

NLSAS 7.2K 3.5” – 4TB, 8TB, 12TB, 16TB, 16TB FIPS, 20TB
• SAS 10K 2.5” – 1.2TB, 2.4TB, 2.4TB FIPS
• SSD – 1.6TB, 1.92TB, 1.92TB SED, 3.84TB, 3.84TB FIPS, 7.68TB

Storage system should support pool capacity of upto 4000 TB Raw capacity

Alll requested features licnese should be supplied from day 1 for complete
supported capacity
5 Years with 24 x 7 support