Equinix IBX Colocation, Redundant Network Fabric, and vSAN ReadyNode Compute Core

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EQUINIX COLOCATION & CONNECTIVITY - 1x Equinix Full Rack (Recommended: Minimum 5.0 kVA to 6.0 kVA Power Profile) - 1x Equinix Internet Access 500/500 Mbps - Redundant dual feed uplinks vSAN CLUSTER (3-NODE READYNODE CONFIGURATION) 3x vSAN ReadyNode - vSAN-ReadyNode-AF-6 - Dell PowerEdge R650 or R750 - CPU: 2x Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC @ 2.4 GHz (32 cores per CPU, 64 cores per node) - Memory: 512 GB RAM - Storage (Cache Tier): 2x 800GB Write-Intensive NVMe or SAS SSDs per node (1 per disk group) - Storage (Capacity Tier): 4x 3.84TB Read-Intensive NVMe or SAS SSDs per node (~15.36 TB Raw per node) - Networking: 2x 10GbE SFP+ NIC Dual Port per node (Dedicated to CORED01A/B for vSAN & vMotion) * Note: 1GbE Management/LAN interfaces use the server's onboard LOM ports - Boot: Dual M.2 RAID1 boot device (Dell BOSS-S2) VMWARE LICENSING (DELL OEM) - 192x VMware vSphere Foundation - 1-Year Prepaid Commit - Per Core * Includes: vSphere Enterprise Plus features, vCenter, 0.25 TiB vSAN capacity per licensed core, VCF Operations * (Licensed with a 16-core minimum per CPU) FIREWALLS & SECURITY - 2x FortiGate 400F Next-Gen Firewall - 2x FortiGate 400F UTP 3-Year Unified Threat Protection Subscription - 4x Fortinet 10Gb SFP+ SR Transceiver Modules CORE / AGGREGATION SWITCHING (TOP OF RACK VLT FABRIC) - 2x Dell S4128F-ON (28x10GbE SFP+, 2x100GbE QSFP28) - 2x Dell Networking Cable 100GbE QSFP28-to-QSFP28 Passive DAC, 1m (VLT Interconnect) - 24x Dell SFP+ 10GbE SR Transceiver Modules (MMF) * Dedicated Core fabric handling Port-Channels Po5, Po6, Po7, Po8, P09 and Po10 for vSAN/vMotion DELL ACCESS SWITCHING (STACKED EDGE PAIR) - 2x Dell N2224PX-ON PoE Switch - 2x Dell Networking Stacking Cable 0.5m (SKU 470-ABMI) * Handles Port-Channels Po1, Po2, Po3, and Po4 over 1GbE Copper * Used for Host Management, local office LAN traffic, and Out-of-Band management FIBRE INTERCONNECT PATCHING - 4x Dell OM4 LC-LC Fibre Cable 1m (MMF) - 8x Dell OM4 LC-LC Fibre Cable 2m (MMF) - 12x Dell OM4 LC-LC Fibre Cable 3m (MMF) COPPER / MANAGEMENT PATCHING (Cat6A LSZH) - 4x Cat6A RJ45 Snagless Patch Cable - 1m (Yellow) - 4x Cat6A RJ45 Snagless Patch Cable - 2m (Blue) - 4x Cat6A RJ45 Snagless Patch Cable - 2m (Purple) - 12x Cat6A RJ45 Snagless Patch Cable - 3m (Sized to cover 6x onboard host data/mgt lines + firewalls) (Green) - 7x Horizontal Cable Managers - (1RU, 4 D-rings & Brush Strip) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - 1x Professional Services Fee - Physical Installation, VLT Switch Fabric Setup, FortiGate HA Clustering, and vSAN OSA Cluster Deployment