Backup Solution · UK public procurement notice

Wrexham Country Borough Council are looking to engage with the market in advance of procuring a new backup system.

Background

The current environment is located across two datacentres connected by 40Gb local fibre backbone. The large majority of servers are virtualised using VMware connected to an IBM FlashSystem. There are a total of 320 servers, details on Server Types and Operating System are below:

Server Type / Server Count

Virtual Servers (VMWare) – 316

Physical Servers – 4

Total – 320

Operating Systems / Server Count

Windows - 294

Linux - 26

Total – 320

Currently there are 110TB of data in use, a breakdown of the data types is below:

Data Type / TB

File – 27

Oracle – 2

SQL – 14

VDI – 4

VM – 63

Total - 110

Connectivity to the network is possible by 25Gb fibre and to the storage fabric network by 32Gb fibre.

Solution Requirements

The backup solution should incorporate the 3-2-1 backup rule, a copy of backup data in each datacentre and an offsite copy in the cloud.

The below table gives details around Data Size, Growth, Change Rates and Recovery Points and Retention Periods that we require:

Data Size - 110TB

Yearly Growth Rate - 5%

Daily Change Rate - 7TB

Recovery Points - Daily 31d, Weekly 7w, Monthly 12m, Yearly 1y

Retention Period - 31d Local, 1yr Cloud*

*Depending on cost increased retention maybe an option

The possibility of a managed service would be of interest and would like to investigate this as an option.

Mailbox data is currently being moved to Office 365 with further data expected to move in the future, we would like to explore the options for backing up O365.

The solution must be able to capable of performing immutable backups.

Please email your response with an overview of your solution/service to Rachel Sanders, Category Manager by 12noon on Tuesday 8th March 2022 to [email protected]. Please only provide information in response to the above. Please include the reference: PROC21-188 in the subject heading of your e-mail response. Please note that we may wish to speak to you regarding your response w/c 21st March 2022.