Attachment B_IaaMS Solution Infrastructure Requirements.pdf

ATTACHMENT B - IaaMS SOLUTION INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS

1.0 SERVER CABINETS

1. The Contractor shall provide server cabinets for each facility.

a. The quantity of server cabinets provided shall be sufficient to contain all hardware provided by the Contractor.

b. The Contractor shall not exceed 3,500 watts of average power draw per server cabinet.

1. Average power draw shall be calculated using one of the following methods:

i. The sum of 50% of the A-side power supply units in each piece of

IT equipment to be installed in the server cabinet (e.g., a piece of hardware with dual 500W power supplies would be counted as 250W of average power draw).

ii. The sum total of the actual power draw for the equipment during the most power-intensive functions (e.g. startup), accounting for all components and subcomponents.

c. Some facilities may not be able to facilitate contiguous placement of multiple racks. The Contractor shall provide any cabling, transceivers, structured cabling elements, and other ancillary hardware required to facilitate non-contiguous placement.

d. Note: A limited number of facilities may not be able to support an additional contractor-supplied server cabinet. At these facilities, VA will provide server cabinet space for the Contractor’s use. This server cabinet space may be non-contiguous and the Contractor shall provide transceivers, cabling, and other ancillary hardware required to facilitate non-contiguous placement.

2. The Contractor shall provide server cabinets with the following characteristics:

a. The Contractor shall provide seismic-rated server cabinets for any facilities located in areas defined as having “Very High”, “High”, “Moderate High”, or “Moderate Low” seismicity in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Seismic Zone Map.

b. The cabinet shall include a minimum of 45 standard rack units (RU) of space (45U) and shall support standard 19” network equipment.

1. Sites with computer room height restrictions may require 42U server cabinets. The Contractor shall validate the required height for each facility prior to shipment. The Contractor shall request a variance and receive an approval from Data Center Infrastructure Engineering per the Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces prior to shipping alternative height racks.

c. The cabinet shall have a nominal width of 24”.

d. The cabinet shall have a minimum depth of 46” and a maximum depth of

48” with accessories (doors) installed.

e. The cabinet shall include removable locking sides, two removable locking rear doors, and one removable locking front door.

f. If the site uses an overhead return air ducting system for containment of exhaust air, the cabinet shall include a vertical exhaust duct to be connected to the overhead return air ducting system during installation.

g. The Contractor shall provide two keys per cabinet. All locks on a given cabinet shall be keyed identically.

h. The front and rear doors shall be fully perforated to maximize airflow.

i. The cabinet and all components shall be white in color.

j. The cabinet shall utilize standard 3/8” x 3/8” square hole mounting methodology.

k. The cabinet shall include the following components:

1. Air dams for left and right of the front rails

2. Finger cable managers

3. Bottom panel with brush grommets

4. Top panel with brush grommets

5. If toolless mounting for vertical Rack PDUs (minimum 1 per side) are not integral, the Contractor shall include vertical Rack PDU bracket assemblies for mounting Rack PDUs on both sides of the rear of the cabinet

3. The Contractor shall install an Equipment Distributor in the top 5 RU of the rear of each server cabinet. Equipment Distributors are further defined in section 2.0 below.

4. The Contractor shall install 1RU blanking panels in any unused space within the cabinet.

5. Each server cabinet shall be bonded to the Telecommunications Equipment Bonding Conductor (TEBC) as required by ANSI/TIA-607-C.

6. All server/storage equipment excepting Rack PDUs shall be mounted in numbered spaces within the rack. The Contractor shall not mount equipment in unnumbered locations (i.e. zero-mounting) or place equipment outside of the server cabinet.

7. Each server cabinet shall be designed to natively support “zero-mounted” vertical Rack PDUs that do not consume rack unit space and do not interfere with the proper mounting of standard rack-mounted equipment.

8. Each server cabinet shall be labeled per the requirements of the VA Infrastructure

Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

9. All server cabinets shall be clearly posted front and back with an 8”x10” notice, stating: “Infrastructure as a Managed Service – No other equipment shall be placed in this rack.” This notice shall be placed only over areas of the server cabinet filled with blanking panels, so as to not interfere with cooling airflow.

10. All equipment located within the server cabinet shall be clearly labeled front and back with the VA-provided hostname of the equipment.

2.0 EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS

1. The top 5U of the rear of each server cabinet is reserved for the Equipment

Distributor (ED) connecting the equipment in the cabinet to the structured cabling system.

2. The ED shall consist of:

1. A minimum of one (1) high-density angled distributor with the following characteristics:

a. 48-port 1RU angled patch panel

b. Designed for 10GBASE-T copper UTP (24 ports to “A” side and 24 ports to “B” side)

c. Rear cable manager and angled panel covers

2. A minimum of one (1) angled high-density fiber distribution panel with the following characteristics:

a. 1RU

b. Provides space for up to 144 fibers

c. LC-style connectors

3. A minimum of Four (4) fiber distribution cassettes for OM4 12-strand fiber, MPO rear connector, LC front connector, Type A polarity

4. Three (3) 1RU angled blanking panels

3. Each equipment distributor shall be labeled per the requirements of the VA Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

3.0 NETWORK CHANNEL RACKS

1. The Contractor shall provide network channel racks for any facility that cannot provide sufficient space in existing network channel racks to support the Contractor-provided network switches.

a. The quantity of network channel racks shall be sufficient to implement the

Horizontal Distribution Areas (HDAs) supporting the IaaMS compute/storage hardware.

b. HDA network racks will typically be installed at the opposite ends of the server cabinet rows servicing that row of equipment.

c. Only network equipment (e.g. switches and patch panels) and blanking panels shall be installed in the network channel racks.

d. Some facilities may not be able to facilitate end-of-row (EOR) placement of multiple network racks.

2. If necessary, the Contractor shall provide cable management channel racks with the following characteristics:

a. The Contractor shall provide seismic-rated server cabinets for any facilities located in areas defined as having “Very High”, “High”, “Moderate High”, or “Moderate Low” seismicity in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Seismic Zone Map.

b. The rack shall be a “channel” rack with sides having a cable management pattern of staggered shapes (circles, hexagons, etc.) to allow for connection points for cable management accessories.

c. The rack shall include 45 standard rack units (RUs) of space (45U) and shall support standard 19” network equipment.

1. Sites with computer room height restrictions may require 42U network racks. The Contractor shall validate the required height for each facility prior to shipment. The use of non-standard height racks requires a variance from Data Center & Infrastructure Engineering per the Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

d. The rack shall have a nominal width of 24”.

e. The rack shall have a minimum channel depth of 30” and a maximum of 36”.

f. The rack shall include 6” width vertical cable managers with doors on both left and right of the rack, vertical PDU bracket assemblies on both the left and right of the rear of the rack, and other mounting hardware.

g. Other cable management accessories shall be provided to help maintain cable bend radius, uniformity and neatness as required. These include d-rings, spools, bend radius limiters, finger cable managers, waterfalls, etc.

h. The cabinet and all components shall be white in color.

i. The cabinet shall utilize standard 3/8” x 3/8” square hole mounting methodology.

3. The Contractor shall install 1RU blanking panels in any unused space within the rack.

4. Install a rear-mounted Rack Bus Bar (RBB) on each network rack and bond it to the Telecommunications Equipment Bonding Conductor (TEBC). The RBB shall:

a. Have a minimum cross-sectional area equal to a 6 AWG wire; and,

b. Be UL listed by Underwriters Laboratories.

5. Each network rack shall be bonded to the RBB as required by ANSI/TIA-607-C.

6. Connect a Unit Bonding Conductor (UBC) between the RBB and each switch in the network rack.

7. All network (switch) equipment excepting Rack PDUs shall be mounted in numbered spaces within the rack. The Contractor shall not mount equipment in unnumbered locations (i.e. zero-mounting) or place equipment outside of the network rack.

8. Each network rack shall be designed to natively support “zero-mounted” vertical

Rack PDUs that do not consume rack unit space and do not interfere with the proper mounting of standard rack-mounted equipment.

9. Each network rack shall be labeled per the requirements of the VA Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

10. All Contractor-provided equipment located within the network rack shall be clearly labeled front and back with the VA-provided hostname of the equipment.

4.0 HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION AREAS (HDAS)

1. If existing structured cabling infrastructure is not available for use at the facility, the Contractor shall install a Horizontal Distributor (HD) in each network rack supporting the IaaMS equipment.

4. The network rack HD shall consist of:

1. High-density angled patch panels with the following characteristics:

a. 48-port 1RU angled patch panels

b. Rated for 10GBASE-T copper UTP

c. Rear cable manager and angled panel covers

d. A quantity sufficient to match the port count coming from the EDs in the server cabinets

2. Leviton HDX Enterprise MTP fiber patch panels, or equivalent, with the following salient characteristics:

a. OM4 12-strand fiber, MPO rear connector, LC front connector, Type A polarity, to support the fiber distribution coming from the EDs in the server cabinets

b. A sufficient quantity of fiber distribution cassettes to support all fiber optic requirements of the solution

3. High-density angled fiber patch panels with the following characteristics:

a. Sufficient 1RU fiber distribution panels to support the number or fiber distribution cassettes required from line 2b above

b. The Contractor shall install 1RU horizontal cable management panels for each switch installed by the Contractor. One cable management panel shall be located immediately above and one immediately below each network switch.

c. Sufficient 1RU angled blanking panels to fully populate any unused RU in the rack

5. Each patch panel shall be labeled per the requirements of the VA Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

5.0 STRUCTURED HORIZONTAL CABLING BETWEEN NETWORK RACKS AND

SERVER CABINETS

1. If no existing structured horizontal cabling exists at the site or the cabling is not suitable for connection of the IaaMS equipment, the Contractor shall install structured horizontal cabling supporting the IaaMS equipment.

2. The horizontal structured cabling shall consist of:

a. Sufficient Category 6A UTP copper trunks in bundles of 6 cables, Leviton

Atlas-X1 or equivalent, Communications Multipurpose Cable, Plenum (CMP) rated, using Berk-Teck Lanmark-10G2 UTP branded cable (or equivalent), T568B wiring tested to Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) 568-C.2 with the Atlas-X1 E2XHD connection (or equivalent) to connect the UTP patch panels in the EDs to the UTP patch panels in the HDAs.

b. Sufficient OM4 multimode fiber assemblies with MPO-12 connectors on each end, Polarity A (Key-up one side, Key-down on the other) to connect the fiber cassettes in the EDs to the fiber cassettes in the HDAs

3. Horizontal fiber cabling shall be installed in a cable tray system running between each network rack and each server cabinet.

4. All cabling shall be labeled per the requirements of the Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

6.0 STRUCTURED BACKBONE CABLING BETWEEN MDAS AND HDAS

1. If no existing structured backbone cabling exists at the site or the cabling is not suitable for connection of the network switching equipment in the network racks, the Contractor shall install structured backbone cabling supporting the IaaMS equipment.

2. The first level backbone should be installed in the top 4U of each network rack where possible.

3. Backbone structured cabling elements shall consist of two (2) OM4 multimode

MPO-12 fiber cables from the network rack backbone structured cabling connection of each HDA to each of the Main Distribution Areas (MDA) backbone structured cabling connection for a total of four (4) MPO-12 fiber cables from each HDA, two (2) to the A-side MDA and two (2) to the B-side MDA.

4. Backbone fiber cabling shall be installed in a cable tray system running between each MDA and its respective network cabinet.

5. The backbone structured cabling connection at each HDA network rack shall consist of:

a. A 1RU fiber distribution cabinet

b. Four (4) fiber distribution cassettes for OM4 12-strand fiber, MPO rear connector, LC front connector, Type A polarity

6. The backbone structured cabling connection at each MDA shall consist of:

a. Sufficient 1RU fiber distribution cabinets to support the fiber distribution from the installed HDA racks.

b. Sufficient fiber distribution cassettes for OM4 12-strand fiber, MPO rear connector, LC front connector, Type A polarity to support the fiber distribution from the installed HDA racks

7. All cabling and patch panels shall be labeled per the requirements of the

Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

7.0 CABLE TRAYS

1. If no existing cable tray exists at the site or the tray is not suitable for the structured cabling elements, the Contractor shall install cable tray and fiber pathway supporting the IaaMS equipment.

2. Cable trays shall be installed over IT equipment rows in such a manner as to support future expansion.

3. Cable tray elements shall be wire mesh baskets with tray inserts, powder coat white, sized at a minimum of 4” deep and 12” wide.

4. The Contractor shall provide fiber pathways. The pathways shall include channel corners, tee connections, four-way crossings, vertical tees, trumpet spillways, bend radius spillways, and mounting equipment, following the same path as the cable trays.

5. Cable trays will be properly bonded per ANSI/TIA-607-C.

8.0 RACK POWER DISTRIBUTION UNITS

1. The Contractor shall provide two (2) rack PDUs per network rack. At VAs discretion, the Contractor shall provide a minimum of two PDUs per rack for locations that provide existing rack space for the Contractor’s use.

2. The Contractor shall provide matched pairs of switched vertical power distribution units with the following characteristics:

a. To permit easy visual identification, one PDU in the pair shall be black in color and one shall be white in color.

b. Each Rack PDU shall accept 208V power input using a single NEMA L21-20P power plug.

1. The Contractor shall validate the presence of NEMA L21-20R receptacles during the Site Readiness Activity. The Contractor shall request and receive an approved variance from Data Center Infrastructure Engineering prior to shipping any alternative Rack

PDUs.

c. Each Rack PDU shall provide a minimum of thirty (30) International

Electrical Code (IEC) 60320 C13 outlets and a minimum of six (6) IEC 60320 C19 outlets.

d. Each Rack PDU shall support a minimum of 16 amps of de-rated input current.

e. Each Rack PDU shall conform to a vertical zero-mount form factor that does not consume rack unit space and does not interfere with the proper mounting of standard rack equipment.

f. Rack PDUs shall be metered and shall include a visible display illustrating the total amperage drawn from all connected devices.

g. Each PDU shall include an Ethernet interface and shall be configured and cabled in a manner that permits remote monitoring by VA staff. The Contractor shall provide and install cabling and perform any configuration required to permit remote access to the PDU using a VA-provided IP address.

1. Each PDU shall permit remote outlet-level power control, permitting individual outlets to be remotely powered up, powered down, or power cycled by VA staff.

2. Each PDU shall permit remote monitoring of power loads.

9.0 ZONE POWER DISTRIBUTION UNITS

1. The Contractor shall provide one (1) 60A zone PDU for every three contiguously placed vendor-provided cabinets/racks. At VAs discretion, the Contractor shall provide 60A zone PDUs per cabinet/rack for locations that provide existing rack space for the Contractor’s use.

2. The Contractor shall provide 60A zone PDUs with the following characteristics:

a. The zone PDU shall accept two independent power feeds at 208V 60A power hard wired in a junction box with Wye (5-wire) L-L-L-N-G with the neutral upsized one gauge.

b. The zone PDU shall provide a minimum of six (6) NEMA L21-20R outputs, three (3) on one feed and three (3) on another feed.

c. The zone PDU shall be mountable in a standard 19” rack.

d. The zone PDU shall occupy a maximum of two (2) standard rack units.

3. The Contractor shall install the zone PDU within the rack, connect the zone PDU to VA-provided electrical service, connect all rack PDUs to the zone PDU, and perform any other work required to ensure all PDUs are ready for production operation.

10.0 NETWORK

10.1 SOLUTION SWITCHES

1. The Contractor shall provide a minimum of two managed network switches for each solution. The Contractor shall provide additional network switches as needed to provide redundant network connectivity for additional contractor-provided hardware.

2. The Contractor shall provide network switches with the following characteristics:

a. Layer 3 routing functionality

b. A minimum of 48 non-blocking ports supporting a 1000BASE, 10GBASE, and 25GBASE transmission. All 48 ports shall support 16Gb and 32Gb

Fibre Channel connectivity.

c. A minimum of four (4) non-blocking ports supporting 40GBASE and

100GBASE transmission.

d. A minimum of 3 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth across the switch backplane.

e. A minimum of 1 billion packets per second across the switch backplane.

f. Redundant AC power supplies.

g. Support for multi-chassis EtherChannel capabilities across a minimum of two (2) network switches

h. Support for Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.1q trunking

i. Per-port broadcast, multicast, and unicast storm control

j. Support for Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

k. Support for jumbo Ethernet frames with a maximum transmission unit

(MTU) size of 9,100 bytes or greater

l. Support for IEEE 802.1x authentication

m. Support for dynamic assignment of virtual local area networks (VLAN)

n. Support for maximum number of Media Access Control (MAC) addresses permitted per-port

o. Ability to learn and remember a MAC address for each port (i.e. “Sticky

MAC”)

p. Support for IEEE 802.1p class of service (CoS) classification

q. Ability to apply layer 3 access lists to layer 2 interfaces/ports

r. Ability to rate limit (i.e. “police”) per port, per port channel, and per VLAN

s. Support for NTP v3 or greater, including the ability to configure NTP peer and server associations, NTP authentication, and NTP access restrictions.

Ability to restrict NTP packets to a source interface and IP address. Ability to configure a time zone or Universal Time Coordinates (UTC) offset for NTP. Ability to configure automatic recurring daylight savings time.

t. Support for unidirectional link failure detection.

u. Support for IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). The switch shall support disabling spanning tree on a per-port basis. The switch shall be capable of transitioning edge ports immediately to a forwarding state. The spanning tree cost shall be configurable for each port. The spanning tree priority shall be configurable on a per VLAN basis. The switch shall prevent rogue bridges from becoming the STP root. The switch shall prevent alternate ports and root ports from assuming a designated STP port role due to the absence of Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs).

v. The switch shall implement centralized Authorization, Authentication and Accounting (AAA), including role-based authorization and syslog support.

w. The switch shall include support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v2c and v3, including SNMP trap functionality.

x. The switch shall support management via secure shell (SSH).

y. The switch shall support Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

(RADIUS).

z. The switch shall support Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

aa. The switch shall support a configurable timeout value for both local console and virtual terminal (VTY) connectivity.

bb. The switch shall support the definition of IP access control lists (ACLs) for VTY sessions.

cc. The switch shall include a dedicated out-of-band Ethernet management port.

dd. The switch shall support Domain Name Server (DNS) resolution for user-defined device names.

ee. The switch shall support the mirroring of individual ports, replicating all inbound and outbound traffic from one port to another.

ff. The switch shall support data traffic rate limiting based on both source and destination IP and MAC address. Rate limiting shall support both

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic.

gg. The switch shall include a logging function that supports user-configurable log history sizes, severity-based filtering, and log time stamps.

hh. The switch shall support VXLAN tunneling.

ii. The switch shall support a network fabric virtualization (NFV), including integration with Wide Area Network (WAN) and Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) fabric virtualization.

jj. The switch shall support centralized enterprise management of licenses.

3. The Contractor shall place all Contractor-provided switches in the Horizontal

Distribution Area (HDA) network racks supporting the IaaMS equipment locations.

a. If existing HDAs are not available, the Contractor shall provide network racks to place the network switches into.

i. The Contractor shall work with Data Center Infrastructure Engineering to determine placement of network racks to serve the HDA role.

b. The network switches shall be connected to the IaaMS server cabinets and to the site Main Distribution Area (MDA) network core switches via structured cabling. If no existing structured cabling is available or acceptable, the Contractor shall provide the structured cabling elements and pathway systems.

i. The Contractor shall work with Data Center Infrastructure Engineering to develop site-specific solutions for structured cabling.

4. The solution shall be fully redundant and shall continue to meet all performance and accessibility requirements in the event of the planned or unplanned outage of any single switch.

5. The switch architecture shall support non-disruptive upgrades, patches, and hotfixes in a manner that does not limit availability of the solution or reduce the performance of the solution below the requirements within this PWS.

6. The switch quantity, port density, and port speed shall provide all necessary inter-solution and intra-solution connectivity required to meet the performance and reliability requirements within this PWS.

a. The solution shall include a port density sufficient to provide redundant connectivity to all hardware provided under this PWS. The failure of any one switch shall not preclude the solution from meeting the performance requirements within this PWS.

b. The Contractor shall provide additional switching capacity as needed to facilitate connectivity for additional hardware provided under options exercised by VA throughout the POP.

7. The Contractor shall implement a minimal configuration upon deployment permitting remote management access for VA staff. The Contractor shall ensure

PA-designated VA staff have remote access to all network equipment prior to leaving the site.

a. VA shall maintain sole responsibility for all further configuration, patching, and day-to-day management and monitoring of all network switches.

10.2 TRANSCEIVERS AND CABLING

10.2.1 INTRA-SOLUTION

1. The Contractor shall provide and install all cabling, transceivers, and ancillary components required to produce a fully functional solution.

2. All intra-solution cabling shall be installed in a structured manner and shall include any cable management equipment necessary to provide a neat and workmanlike installation.

3. All intra-solution cabling shall be clearly, legibly, and permanently labeled on both ends.

a. The Contractor shall ensure all labels conform with the Infrastructure Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

4. The Contractor shall utilize varying cabling colors to simplify implementation, augmentation and troubleshooting. Bulk horizontal cabling shall have blue colored jacks connecting to the A-side and yellow colored jacks connecting to the

B-side. Implementation procedures and design diagrams shall identify cabling by color. UTP patch cords shall follow the same color scheme.

10.2.2 INTER-SOLUTION

1. The Contractor shall provide and install all cabling, transceivers, licensing, and ancillary components required to redundantly connect the solution to VA-provided network switch ports. This includes cabling and transceivers for the upstream switch and any additional cabling required to navigate inter-rack patch panels.

2. Cabling shall be installed in a manner that provides efficient troubleshooting, enables proper cooling and prevents heatsinks that may impact the availability and efficiency of equipment. If necessary, perforated blanking plates, brushed grommets and similar ancillary hardware shall be provided by vendor as part of the solution.

3. The Contractor shall provide and install all cable management equipment necessary to provide a neat and workmanlike installation.

4. All inter-solution cabling shall be clearly, legibly, and permanently labeled on both ends.

a. The Contractor shall ensure all labels conform with the VA Infrastructure

Standard for Telecommunications Spaces.

5. The overall upstream bandwidth provided between the solution and facility’s upstream switches shall meet the performance requirements set forth in this document. The Contractor shall provide additional hardware to increase upstream bandwidth as needed to meet increased solution bandwidth requirements throughout the period of performance.

6. The Contractor shall utilize varying cabling colors to simplify implementation, augmentation and troubleshooting. Bulk horizontal cabling shall have blue colored jacks connecting to the A-side and yellow colored jacks connecting to the B-side. Implementation procedures and design diagrams shall identify cabling by color. UTP patch cords shall follow the same color scheme.

10.2.3 THROTTLING

1. The proposed solution shall include data transmission throttling functionality that permits storage replication traffic to be limited to a user-configurable maximum threshold.

2. The proposed solution shall include functionality that permits replication traffic to be limited to user-configurable time periods.