FROM: James D. Herberg, General Manager
Originator: Lorenzo Tyner, Assistant General Manager
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REPLACE SERVER AND STORAGE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PLANT NO. 1 INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM
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GENERAL MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
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RECOMMENDATION: Recommend to the Board of Directors to:
A. Approve a Purchase Order to ePlus Technology, Inc. for the purchase of software, hardware, and services to implement and configure the Nutanix metro clusters for Plant No. 1 Industrial Control System, Specification No. E-2022-1300BD, for a total amount not to exceed $560,195, plus applicable sales tax and shipping; and
B. Approve a contingency in the amount of $56,019 (10%).
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BACKGROUND
Orange County Sanitation District's (OC San) current server and storage computing infrastructure for the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) network has reached its end of life. Staff has been incrementally replacing server and storage at the two Plants for the ICS network and this is the last of the replacements. Staff is recommending modernizing the remaining antiquated storage and server infrastructure with a Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution called Nutanix to replace the server and storage systems in the ICS network to be compatible with the prior replacements.
The Nutanix HCI solution is a merger of computing and storage systems. It provides a simple interface to run workloads, providing a single interface to manage and allocate computer resources. The storage and computer nodes act as one highly reliable pool of resources. Should one node go down, the rest will remain unaffected. This resilience is key to ensuring connectivity and uptime. Nutanix HCI can also be scaled out by adding nodes to match resource demand.
RELEVANT STANDARDS
* 24/7/365 treatment plant reliability
* Ensure the public's money is wisely spent
* Maintain a culture of improving efficiency to reduce the cost to provide the current service level or standa...
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