Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory request bids for an all flash file storage system providing multi-petabytes of data storage via nfs and smb to a mixture of approximately 1000 linux and windows clients. All equipment is intended to be used as a single system and must work together accordingly. Therefore, partial bids will not be accepted. This storage system shall meet or exceed these requirements and be delivered and installed as a complete fully functional integrated system. * storage shall utilize all flash technology * provide 4.5PB minimum usable capacity (data reduction using no greater than a 2:1 ratio can be used to obtain this minimum) * support scaling of both throughput and capacity with no downtime * support upgrades with no downtime * simultaneous provide nfs v3 /v4 and smb to clients (Rhel 9.1 and Windows 10) * authentication to existing ldap server
