# NETWORK HARDWARE

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [PRIESTLEY COLLEGE](/buyers/priestley-college/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [Virtue Technologies](/contract-winners/virtue-technologies/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £25,000
- Tender value: £25,000
- Award date: 27 June 2016
- Published: 18 November 2016
- Contract start: 24 June 2016
- Contract end: 25 July 2016
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: works
- Notice ID: 75226a82-b252-443d-8e83-deb773e0da1b-99115
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-c1016bd4-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

VMware Physical Host Upgrade Replace 2 x Primergy RX300 S6 Hosts to a host of minimum specification of the existing Primergy RX2540MI and upgrade the memory to make sure all 4 physical hosts have 512GB RAM\. These Primergy RX2540MI servers each have 8 spare memory slots\. Install 2 new Hosts into existing VMWare 5\.5 Enterprise Environment and ensure VMotion working etc\. 5 Year 4 Hour Response Warranty required for Physical Host Servers Brocade 8GB Fibre Channel Switch Supply and install 1 x 8GB Fibre Channel l Brocade FC Switch B300 8P FC8G, we already have one of these as we had to replace a faulty one recently\. New Primary and Secondary Fibre Channel SAN’s • SAN Vendor must be Fujitsu, Dell, EMC or HP • 5 Year 4 Hour Response Warranty required for all SAN hardware\. Brocade Switch is fine with 1 year onsite warranty\. • Must be easy to expand the SAN by adding significant further Tender & Delivery Deadline Please indicate on the tender the time to deliver the hardware\. You must be able to guarantee delivery of all hardware by the 25th July 2016 otherwise you will not meet the tender requirements\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/75226a82-b252-443d-8e83-deb773e0da1b-99115)