Server Infrastructure Replacement
Tender Overview
About this tender
Overview The Shire of Mundaring is inviting tenders for a proposed solution to replace its current server hardware and hypervisor solution. Scope The scope includes: Replacement of the current hardware and hypervisor solution Use of the private fibre link between the Shire's Administration building server room and the server room at the Shire's Operations depot to share active-active workloads across both sites Provision of full site fail-over redundancy capability across both sites Contractor Requirements The Shire prefers a HPE VME hypervisor solution to replace VMware, however other solutions will be accepted and considered.
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