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EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their
operations and deliver information technology as a service (ITaaS). EMC employs
approximately 60,000 people worldwide. We are a publicly traded company, listed on
the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and are a component of the
S&P 500 Index.
For additional information, contact:
EMC
Attn: Ken Mills
Phone: +1 843 991-8527
Web: www.emc.com/videosurveillance.htm
E-mail: ken.mills@emc.com
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DIVISION 27 – COMMUNICATIONS
27 20 00
Data Communications
27 22 00
Data Communications Hardware
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Data Communications Storage and Backup
Notes to Specifier:
1. Specifiers may alternately wish to include this specification in the following sections:
28 23 00
Video Surveillance
2. Where several alternative parameters or specifications exist, or where, the specifier has the option of
inserting text, such choices are presented in <bold text>.
3. Explanatory notes and comments are presented in colored text.
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PART 1
1.01
GENERAL
SUMMARY
A.
Section includes a storage platform with standby power supply, optimized for a surveillance video
distributed storage architecture, providing <24> <120> TB raw storage capacity expandable to 480
TB raw storage capacity.
B. Related Requirements
1. 23 00 00 - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) (Division 23)
2. 27 00 00 - Communications (Division 27)
a. 27 11 00 - Communications Equipment Room Fittings
b. 27 20 00 - Data Communications
1) 27 21 00 Data Communications Network Equipment
2) 27 22 00 - Data Communications Hardware
a) 27 22 19 - Data Communications Servers
3. 28 23 00 - Video Surveillance (Division 28)
a. 28 23 13 - Video Surveillance Control and Management Systems
1.02
REFERENCES
A. Abbreviations
1. ABE – Access-based Enumeration
2. ARP – Address Resolution Protocol
3. AVM – Automatic Volume management
4. CIFS - Common Internet File System
5. CLI – Command Line Interface
6. CNA – Converged Network Adapter
7. DAE – Disk Array Enclosure
8. DFS – Distributed File System
9. DPE – Disk Processor Enclosure
10. FC – Fibre Channel
11. FCoE – Fibre Channel over Ethernet
12. FLR – File Level Retention
13. FTP - File Transfer Protocol
14. Gb/s - Gigabits per second
15. GB - Gigabyte
16. GB/s - Gigabytes per second
17. HDD - Hard Disk Drive
18. HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
19. IOPS - Input-output Operations per Second
20. IP - Internet Protocol
21. iSCSI - Internet Small Computer Systems Interface
22. LAN - Local Area Network
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23. LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
24. LUN – Logical Unit Number
25. MB - Megabyte
26. MB/s - Megabytes per second
27. NDMP - Network Data Management Protocol
28. NEBS – Network Equipment Building System
29. NFS - Network File System
30. NL-SAS – Near-Line Serial Attached SCSI
31. NSM – Network Status Monitor
32. NTLM – NT LAN Manager
33. NTP – Network Time Protocol
34. OS - Operating System
35. pNFS – parallel NFS
36. QoS – Quality of Service
37. RIP – Routing Information Protocol
38. SAS – Serial-attached SCSI
39. SATA – Serial Advanced Technology Attachment
40. SCSI – Small Computer Systems Interface
41. SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
42. SNTP – Simple Network Time Protocol
43. TB – Terabyte
44. VLAN – Virtual Local Area Network
45. WORM – Write Once Read Many
B. Definitions
1. Automatic Volume Management (AVM) – A system to manage volumes automatically, organizing
volumes into storage pools that can be allocated to file systems.
2. Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) – An enclosure housing storage processor, storage drives, Fibre
Channel (FC) link control cards, power supplies, and fan packs.
3. Disk Array Enclosure (DAE) – An expansion enclosure housing additional drives, Fibre Channel
link control cards, and power supplies.
4. Logical Unit Number (LUN) – Identifying number of a SCSI or iSCSI object that processed SCSI
commands. LUN is the last party of the SCSI address for a SCSI object. Although the LUN is an
ID for the logical unit, it is often used to refer to the logical unit itself.
5. Near-Line Serial Attached SCSI (NL-SAS) – Enterprise SATA drives with SAS interface head,
media, and rotational speed of Enterprise SATA drives with a fully capable SAS interface.
6. Storage Pool – A single repository of homogeneous or heterogeneous physical disks from which
LUN’s may be created.
7. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that
combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy
(protection) or performance improvement
C. Reference Standards
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1. Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)
a. 802.3 - Ethernet
b. 802.1q – Virtual LAN
2. Safety
a. UL 60950-1:2003, First Edition
b. CSA 22.2 No. 60950-1-03
c.
IEC 60950-1 (2001)
d. CE Low Voltage Directive
3. IETF RFC 5661 - Network File System (NFS) Version 4 Minor Version 1 Protocol
4. Electromagnetic Compatibility
a. FCC - Code of Federal Regulations, Title 47, Part 15, Class A
b. Canada Interference Causing Equipment Standard ICES-03
c.
1.03
EU EMC Directives EN 55022, EN 55024
SUBMITTALS
A. Product Data
1. Manufacturer’s printed or electronic data sheets
2. Manufacturer’s installation and operation manuals
3. Manufacturer’s compatibility testing with specified Video Management System .
1.04
QUALIFICATIONS
A. Manufacturer shall be ISO 9001 certified with a minimum of three years’ experience in manufacturing
digital storage equipment.
B. Installers shall be authorized by the Manufacturer to plan, configure and install the system.
1.05
WARRANTY
A. Manufacturer shall provide a limited one year hardware warranty for the product to be free of defects
in material and workmanship.
B. Manufacturer shall provide a limited 90 day software warranty for the product to be free of defects
and to supply any required patches or updates during the period.
C. Manufacturer shall have available additional optional packages for extended hardware and software
support.
D. Warranty and extended service support shall include 24 hour/7 day direct coverage by the
Manufacturer.
1. Support shall include options for same day 4 hour or next business day response.
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PART 2
2.01
PRODUCTS
EQUIPMENT
A. Manufacturer:
EMC
Attn: Ken Mills
Phone: +1 843 991-8527
Web: www.emc.com /video-surveillance.htm
E-mail: ken.mills@emc.com
B. Models:
VNX-VSS100
Specific EMC model numbers are as follows:
Base Models (Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE)):
VSS1-FLD
24 TB unit, customer rack mountable
VSS1-ERK
24 TB unit, EMC-supplied rack
VSS2-FLD
120 TB unit, customer rack mountable
VSS2-ERK
120 TB unit, EMC-supplied rack
Expansion (Disk Array Enclosure (DAE))
VSS-DAE-15
Customer rack mountable
VSS-DAE-15F EMC-supplied rack
Drive Packages:
C. Alternates:
2.02
VSS-9X4TB
9 4TB NL-SAS drives (36 TB)
VSS-15X4TB
15 4TB NL-SAS drives (60 TB)
None
DESCRIPTION
A. The video optimized storage platform (storage platform) shall
1. contain processing and storage
2. be comprised of <one> <two> 3RU rack mountable base disk processor enclosure<s> (DPE)
3. provide <24> <120> TB storage comprised of 3.5” 7200 rpm NL-SAS 4 TB HDD’s within its
envelope
4. be capable of communicating via Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI
5. employ block transfer of data at rates up to 500 MB/s
6. provide auto-configuration and load balancing
7. be expandable in increments of 9 or 15 4 TB HDD’s per Disk Array Enclosure (DAE) for a
maximum aggregate capacity of 84 HDD’s (336 TB raw)
8. support server virtualization integration and optimization with VMware and Microsoft
B. There shall be no single point of failure within the storage platform, which shall provide proven
99.999% (five-9’s) reliability/availability.
C. The Manufacturer shall have available a unified storage management software package and/or CLI
allowing management of all storage platforms in the installation to include storage configuration and
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management, monitoring and reporting, capacity and performance analyzer capabilities, QoS, and
troubleshooting.
When two options are presented, the entries apply to the VSS1 and VSS2 products, consecutively,
unless otherwise noted.
2.03
HARDWARE COMPONENTS
A. The storage platform shall consist of a Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE), Disc Array Enclosure(s)
(DAE), as needed for expansion, and standby battery back-up module(s).
B. Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE)
1. Chassis
a. The DPE shall be <one> <two> processor enclosure<s>, <3RU> <6RU> in height, capable
of being mounted in a standard 19-inch wide rack and housing up to 15 3.5” drives.
1) Dimensions (per DPE) 5.25” (h) x 17.75” (w) x 24.25” (d)
(13.3 cm x 44.4 cm x 61.6 cm)
2. Specifications
a. Hard Disk Drives
1) Type:
NL-SAS option 3.5” 7200 rpm - 4 TB
2) Capacity:
6 – 15
b. Drive Controller (per DPE): 6 Gbps SAS
c. Processor (per DPE):
Intel Xeon 5600, 1.6 GHz, 4 core
d. Internal Memory (per DPE): 16 GB
e. Connectivity:
1) Network
a) 8 x Fibre Channel
b) 4 x Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI (RJ-45)
c) Option for additional 4 x Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI (RJ-45)
f.
2) Expansion (DAE):
2 x 6 GB/s SAS buses
3) Management:
2 x 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Electrical
1) Input voltage:
100 - 240 VAC
2) AC Line Current:
5.84 A maximum at 100 VAC
2.99 A maximum @ 200 VAC
3) Maximum Power Consumption: 599 VA (574 W)
4) Power supplies (2)
a) 875 Watts per power supply
b) Power factor
i.
.98 minimum at 100 VAC full load
ii.
.95 minimum at 200 VAC full load Dual load balance: + or – 15% of full load
c) Hot swappable, redundant
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C. Disk Array Enclosure (DAE) Specifications
1. Chassis :
3RU
2. Hard Disk Drives
a. Type:
3.5” NL-SAS 7200 rpm – 4 TB
b. Number:
<9> <15>
3. Interface:
6 Gbps SAS
4. Data Buffer:
16 MB minimum
D. Standby Battery Back-up Power System Specifications
1. Height:
1RU
2. Capacity:
1.2 KW
3. Number:
1 or 2
4. Maximum Thermal Load: 1959 BTU/hr
2.04
SOFTWARE
A. Operating System: EMC VNX
1. Protocols supported:
a. Block Protocols:
1)
iSCSI
2) Fibre Channel (FCP SCSI-3)
3) FCoE
b.
Common Criteria Certification: EAL 3+ Assurance Level
c.
Ethernet Trunking
d.
Failsafe Networking
e.
Link Aggregation (IEEE 802.3ad)
f.
UNIX archive utilities (tar/cpio)
g.
Network Equipment-Building System (NEBS) Level 3/ETSI Certified
h.
Network Information Service (NIS) Client
i.
Portmapper v2
j.
Network Time Protocol (NTP) client
k.
Simple Network Management Protocol V1-V3 (SNMP)
l.
Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
m. Virtual LAN (IEEE 802.1q)
2. Available features in the operating system shall include:
a. automatic optimization of system performance through extendable cache for performance
increase
b. security and compliance to protect against unauthorized changes, deletions, and malicious
activity through data encryption, disk-based WORM functionality, and anti-virus integration
and alerting
c.
data protection against local failures, outages, and disasters
B. Storage Provisioning – Manufacturer shall have a plug-in available to enable application-aware
storage provisioning for Microsoft Windows Server applications, Hyper-V, VMware, and Xen Server
environments.
C. Storage Analytics – Manufacturer shall offer the capability for single end-end view of virtualized
infrastructures powered by the VMware vCenter Operations management Suite.
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D. Management
1. Software:
EMC Unisphere
2. Features – The management software shall include the following set of features:
a. unified management
1) common experience for block
2) single sign-on for all devices in a management domain
3) integrated reporting, monitoring, and management functions
b. user
1) single screen dashboards for at-a-glance view and reporting
2) management based on application context
3) customized views
4) single view drill down for Administrator troubleshooting
c.
centralized storage management
1) integrated views for storage and virtual machine relationships
2) provisioning wizards for virtualized infrastructures
d. virtualization
1) automatic discovery of virtual machines managed under VMware vCenter
2) end-end mapping of virtual environment
3) offload of storage related functions from server to storage system
4) availability of a plug-in for vCenter allowing VMware Administrator direct access to
storage-level functionality
5) support for Microsoft Hyper-V environment
2.05
PERFORMANCE
A. Efficiency
1. Distribute data among a cluster's nodes with layout algorithms that maximize storage efficiency
and performance
2. Continuously reallocate data to conserve space and automatically eliminate on-disk hot spots
B. Throughput
1. Scale throughput and I/O per second linearly with the number of nodes in the system.
2. Single stream transfer rate:
>500 MB/s
C. Resiliency and Availability
1. Hardware redundancy shall be provisioned through the use of dual power supplies, fans and
storage processors.
2. Stand-by power option
3. Raid options:
0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5, 6
4. Reliability:
99.999%
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PART 3
3.01
EXECUTION
INSTALLERS
A. Contractor personnel shall comply with all applicable state and local licensing requirements.
3.02
INSTALLATION
A. Before permanent installation of the system, the system shall be factory tested in conditions
simulating the final installed environment
B. Contractor shall follow all of the Manufacturers published installation requirements and guidelines.
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