Specifications include, but are not limited to: The City of Thomasville is to replace the in-house SAN storage via an upgrade purchase of a SAN STORAGE. The City of Thomasville is a member of the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia serving Internet, Cable, electric, water, gas sewer, refuse customers within the Utilities’ service territory. The City of Thomasville currently owned SAN has been in use for approximately 10 years. As the City has grown the City of Thomasville believes the future is better served by partnering with a vendor who can provide a SAN STORAGE for current and future services, provide excellent software support, and account for our current and future business rules as our customer’s needs change. 2. Objective The City of Thomasville has the following core objectives in implementing a new or used SAN STORAGE solution to: Provide Design and Construction Provide Commissioning/Startup Provide Maintenance Services. The SAN STORAGE must provide a comprehensive and complete solution to meet the “Primary” requirements per the functional, performance, information, and technology specification contained herein. The City of Thomasville’s SAN STORAGE will be implemented as the central platform for customer resource management, monthly Financial Management, accepting payments, and broadband service selection for customers. The SAN STORAGE is expected to have a minimum functional operational life of ten (10) years with regular updates which could expand that functional lifespan for many additional years. The core capabilities of the SAN STORAGE system must include the following: The SAN STORAGE should provide a dual role as a storage and Disaster Recovery (DR) Platform (DRP). o Provide x2 dual High Availability SAN controllers o Geo-separated linked synchronously or asynchronously. o Storage Primary 336 TB RAW and 192TB Usable minimum Secondary 291.6TB RAW and 176TB Usable minimum Or comparable space for 10 years growth o High-Efficiency Hot-Swappable Dual Power Supply in Each Node o Support Flash Pools or similar technology Minimum 72TB o Volume Encryption o 10 GB SFP x2 minimum o Provide a network drawing package of installed system to be interfaced to CoT network. o Provide Warranty support four (4) hours onsite for first five (5) years and break fix 5x8 NBD. o Provide a customer service work order system to handle specific services. o Provide a solution to create custom reports as requested by users. Automated reporting is also a requirement.