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Whether you work for a large enterprise or a small company, you may one day find yourself having to move your company’s data centre to a larger facility. Needless to say, moving a data centre is a huge job, even for a small company.

The key to a successful move is planning, planning, and more planning. Unfortunately, every move is different, so there is no way that I can tell you everything that you need to know about moving a corporate data centre. Having been through several moves though, I want to take the opportunity to talk about some of the most important aspects of preparing for a move.

Check out this interesting article from zdnet, it’s talking about things to think about when moving data centers, an issue that’s becoming increasingly important as companies start having to acquire more space and move their server estates to bigger data centers with more cooling and power for their business needs.

The article has some great points, things I’d recommend would be to think about the hardware factor, is it worth having a hardware guy around for a few hours with some spare disks, the odd power supply so that if there are any ‘casualties’ they get dealt with their and then and not de-rail everything logging a hardware call, also do you want your windows/unix and storage guys to be on site, remote working is brilliant but when it all goes bang (not that it will) but if it does, is it not easier if everyone’s on site? Also from the big picture angle, what are we moving? Could it be virtualized beforehand? Could we for example P2V (virtualize) any windows/linux server that’s over 3 years old and send it down to the new data center? Do we really want to move those Compaq 6500s? Who’s the central point of contact, how do we notify the application teams, and who will do the sign off to say on a per application/per infrastructure basis that the move is signed off?

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