Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1 The vendor’s solution must support TCP/IP communications including DHCP, DHCP reservations for static IP addressing, and DNS provided by Active Directory. This enables the vendor’s solution to be dynamically reachable by name versus IP and supports dynamic network features such as load-balancing. 2 Where the vendor’s solution installs services on the operating system, such services must run in non-interactive mode. i.e. The server can remain logged off and/or doesn’t require the server to be logged on with any particular account. 3 The application shall be compatible with the latest (or n-1) versions of third party software required to run the application such as java, .NET and/or flash. 4 Parkland utilizes VMWare View 6.2 (7 after April ’17) and VSphere 5.5 virtualization. The vendor’s solution must support deployment to a VMWare virtualized environment including VMotion and VM Snapshots. 5 Requirements for AIX systems, LPAR and server farm, shared or dedicated.