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Q&A Document

80NSSC2639464Q – Internal Hard Drives & Drive Bay Storage Server

Q: Please clarify the intended server and storage con�iguration?

1. Are the thirty (30) Seagate Exos 20TB drives intended to be installed in the four

(4) Storinator C8 servers listed under Line 2, or will they be installed in existing NASA servers?

1. They will be installed in existing NASA 45 Drives Storinator X30 servers that are currently only populated with 15 drives.

2. If the drives are for existing servers, please provide the following information:

• Server manufacturer and model number: 45 Drives Storinator X30

• Server chassis or storage enclosure model

• Number of available drive bays: two servers 15 available in each.

• Required drive form factor: 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch: 3.5 “

• Supported drive interface: SATA, SAS, or NVMe: SATA preferred though SAS should also work with the HBA. Existing drives are SATA so that’s preferred.

• RAID controller or HBA manufacturer and model: I would have to physically look, and I can’t but it’s the standard 45 drives HBA paired with the gigabyte motherboard option.

• Maximum supported drive capacity per bay: No real clue, it has 20 TB drives in and we need 20TB drives, 22 would also be ok…

• Required sector format: 512e or 4Kn – I don’t think we care.

• Whether hot-swap drive trays, carriers, caddies, or interposers are required - No

• Current operating system and storage-management software: Proxmox with

ZFS

• Required RAID con�iguration: RAIDZ2

• Number of drives to be installed in each server: Currently they have 15 and we want 15 more in each server.

• Whether any drives will be retained as spares: We already have spares.

3. For the Storinator C8 systems, please con�irm the required con�iguration for: I feel like this information was already included in the RFP but I’ll post it below.

• Processor model or minimum processor speci�ications: Minijm process or is

AMD EPYC 8534P

• Memory capacity: 6x 32 GB of RAM per host

• Number and capacity of Micron 7500 Pro drives per server: 5 per server, 7.6 TTB drives to total 20 drives.

• Storage controller or HBA con�iguration: HBA intending to be a Proxmox CEPH cluster

• RAID or ZFS con�iguration: See Above

• Boot-drive type and capacity: 2x480GB Boot Drive

• Network interface speed and port quantity: Need at least 1 100GB QSFP28, along with 1x standard gigabit ethernet (preferably 10 Gbps copper RF45 interface)

• Operating system or storage software: Proxmox Ceph

• Power-supply con�iguration: Redundant

• Rack-mounting accessories: Standard Rack Mount Rails four post rack.

• Warranty and support term: Standard warranty with federal keep your component, we won’t be able to allow anyone access to the hardware nor will be able to return any components. If things need replacing we can provided signed certi�icates of destruction.

4. Please also con�irm whether the servers and drives must be delivered separately or whether the drives must be installed, con�igured, tested, and delivered as complete operational systems.

1. Intent is for drives to deliver separately as they will go into other systems.

5. The Statement of Work identi�ies four (4) Storinator C8 servers, but the item table appears unclear. Please con�irm the �inal quantity required for Line 2.

1. Should be 4 Storinator C8 Servers.