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What should I consider when moving my data center?

When a facility can no longer be optimized to provide sufficient power and cooling — or it can’t be modified to meet evolving space and reliability requirements — then you’re going to have to move. Successful data center relocation requires careful end-to-end planning.

Site selection: A site suitability analysis should be conducted prior to leasing or building a new data center. There are many factors to consider when choosing a site. For example, the data center should be located far from anyplace where a natural disaster — floods, earthquakes and hurricanes — could occur. As part of risk mitigation, locations near major highways and aircraft flight corridors should be avoided. The site should be on high ground, and it should be protected. It should have multiple, fully diverse fiber connections to network service providers. There should be redundant, ample power for long term needs. The list can go on and on.

Move execution: Substantial planning is required at both the old and the new facility before the actual data center relocation can begin. Rack planning, application dependency mapping, service provisioning, asset verification, transition plans, test plans and vendor coordination are just some of the factors that go into data center transition planning.

If you are moving several hundred servers, the relocation may be spread over many days. If this is the case, you will need to define logical move bundles so that interdependent applications and services can be moved together so that you will be able to stay in operation up to the day on which the move is completed.

On move day, everything must go like clockwork to avoid down time. Real time visibility into move execution through a war room or a web-based dashboard will allow you to monitor the progress of the move and be alerted to potential delays that require immediate action or remediation.

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