NYS Office for Technology/State Data Center

Server Platform Technical Infrastructure Architecture

Appendix 10 – I/EDR RFP

Server Platform Technical Infrastructure Architecture

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to establish guidelines for deployment of distributed

platforms to be managed within the OFT State Data Center and to assist our customer
agencies in selecting and procuring products which can be supported within the OFT Data
Centers.

Goals
1. Reliable, available, and secure infrastructure.
2. Scaleable in terms of both capacity and integration with new technology.
3. Adaptive
4. Reduce infrastructure complexity
5. Minimize support costs for agencies and maximize Data Center staff expertise and
productivity by reducing the proliferation of heterogeneous environments.

SDC HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

HARDWARE

Open Systems Support will work with the customer agency to prepare hardware
specifications to meet the user’s requirements as well as the standards required for
servers administered by the Data Center. These specifications will be based on generic
requirements identified by the customer agency or the vendor working on behalf of the
customer agency at the level described below.

Servers
• The customer agency should provide OFT with server requirements as follows:
o Any special requirements for the processors (number of and minimum
speed, cache characteristics and size)
o Memory requirement analysis, real and virtual (number of users,
characteristics of the software, etc.)
o Requirements for storage. Amounts that go beyond 36GB useable
internal disk must be identified and will be provided using one of the
tiered storage solutions offered in OFT’s Enterprise Storage offering.
o Other specific server requirements.
• OFT will automatically include the following standards in the specification:
o Rack optimized configuration in standard 19 inch racks
o Mirrored internal SCSI hard drives, high rotational speed, 36GB or
greater.

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o Redundant fiber HBA cards will be required to support external storage.
o Additional fiber HBA cards may be required for backup if the external
storage volume is significant.
o 2 10/100/1000 copper Production Nics for redundancy
o 1 10/100/1000 copper Backup Nic
o 1 10/100/1000 copper Administrative Nic
o Redundant power and cooling components
o Remote Management Module
o Predictive hardware failure analysis/alerting which integrates with IBM
Director, when applicable, and the OFT Enterprise Systems Management
infrastructure.

All production hardware should reside in the Production Three-tier network. At least one
pre-production environment (i.e. Staging), which is similar to the production infrastructure,
must be hosted by the OFT and will reside in the Quality Assurance (QA) network.

SOFTWARE
This section identifies software currently supported by the OFT Data Center and preferred
for all new implementations. Preferred products listed below are identified based on
OFT’s current ability to support a product due to product expertise, training and acquired
skill level. The OFT Data Center will be able to support any of the preferred products as
part of the standard server hosting rates. The customer agency and the vendor working
on behalf of the customer agency must work with the OFT Data Center to introduce any
new products to the list of preferred products prior to OFT’s agreement to support servers
with that product. Selection of any other product will result in an annual surcharge of
$400,000 or 20% of the server support costs, whichever is higher

Operating System Software

• UNIX - all applications to be deployed in the Data Center should be architected

and certified to run on any Tier 1 UNIX platform. OFT will identify the Tier 1
UNIX platform that is currently a standard at the time of implementation.
• SUSe Linux
• Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise Edition for .Net implementations
only.

Virtualization Software

• Vmware-ESX

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Hardware Server Clustering

• Server clustering should be accomplished with hardware vendor supplied

hardware and software clustering solutions available on the Tier 1 UNIX
currently identified by the OFT as the standard or on SUSE Linux.

Middleware/Application Server

• WebSphere Application Server

• WebSphere MQ
• Microsoft .Net

Web Server

• Apache
• IBM HTTP Server
• Microsoft IIS Web Server 5.0/6.0 for .Net implementations only

Database Management Software

• Oracle, current versions

• MS SQL current versions for .Net implementations only

Application Architecture Standards

• Statewide Directory Services should be used for authentication and
authorization. The Statewide Directory uses Netegrity Siteminder to access the
NYS Statewide LDAP Directory.
• Application must be architected to function in the OFT Three Tier Architecture

Systems Management Standards

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) license for each production and staging server.
• IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) license for each server production and
staging server.
• IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler for any scheduling requirements (Based on
customer requirements).
• Performance Reporting is provided through custom reports generated from the
Tivoli Data Warehouse and by using HP Openview Performance Agent.

Network Standards
See the Three Tier description for more details.

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File Management
• All backups will be performed using the OFT Enterprise Backup Solution over the
separate and distinct backup network or the SAN.
• All disk requirements exceeding 36GB will be accommodated on the Enterprise
Storage Area Network (SAN) solution.

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