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NGA-16-RFI-0063MB

10-17-2016 N 541519 National Gallery of Art Office of Procurement and Contracts 2000B South Club Drive Landover MD 20785 The following questions and answers are generated as a result of inquiries made regarding this Sources Sought Announcement. The due date for responses of October 17, 2016 has not changed.

1) On the first page of the solicitation... the due date is Oct 17, 2016. But on the last page (6) of the solicitation, it has a date of 09/30/2016. That was my mistake. Would you please let the bidders know the due date is indeed Oct 17, 2016?

2) Is there an incumbent? The answer is: No, this is a brand new strategic initiative, and we are looking for the industry to assist us.

Question 3: What options are available for data replication?

Answer: We currently do not have replication in place other than mirror drives, or hardware RAID 6. Our VMware infrastructure runs on VMware v5.5 with standard licensing model only (thus no advanced features). We do plan on upgrading our VMware v5.5 to v6.x within FY17. Looking to industry to advise us on the way forward.

Question 4: What storage technology is in use to support virtualized machines?

Answer: We use entry level DELL PowerVault MD3220 with MD1220 expansion enclosures for DEV/Test, DELL PowerVault MD3620 and DELL PowerVault MD3820 with MD1220 expansion enclosures for our production environment (public facing and intranet).

Question 5: How much bandwidth is available at each hosting site, including NGA on-premises, that can be used for replication?

Answer: We plan to upgrade our internet links from 1Gbps to 10Gbps in Q1FY17. For internal (between NGA/SI), we are running through a pair of 10Gbps. We don’t have Quality of Service (QoS) rate limiting in place as of yet.

Question 6: What are the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) goals for Tiers 2-4 systems?

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RTO – As soon as possible. But, in general:

RPO – The least amount of loses the better. However, not all systems should be treated the same way, and we are looking for recommendations.

Question 7: Does this solution need to support both failover and failback?

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Failover – automatic as well as manual intervention Failback – manual intervention (assumption is databases can be sync back to the on-premise instances). If we can execute this task with automated scripts to ensure pre and post failback data integrity that will be great.