Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) & Storage Area Network VMware VSan Migration and License Renewal

The 763rd ESS is seeking information for potential sources to provide support of the HCI software and DELL hardware to ensure timely conversion from Pivot 3 Acuity Software to VMware VSAN software. There will be an ongoing need for software licenses & hardware warranty renewal on annual basis.

The HCI/SAN system includes a bare metal VMware EXSI type 1 hypervisor software, VMware vSphere, VMware VCenter, and VMware Log Insight (Aria Operations), for hosting a virtual environment for virtual machines and file shares but does not include VMware VSAN. The Rubrik Disaster Recovery solution backs up mission critical command & control files & virtual machines locally and remotely (geographically separate from the local base). The Rubrik SAN solution included Rubrik Premium support and Rubrik Foundation Licenses. Pivot 3 was acquired by Quantum in 2021 and such Pivot 3 Acuity software hosted on HCI/SAN for Server Virtualization became end of life and end of vendor support. A VMWare VSAN Proof of Concept was conducted at Joint Base McGuire on NIPRNet back in 2023 and proved to be a successful replacement for Pivot 3 Acuity software.