There are many challenges and many considerations to a relocation whether it is a large and complex relocation or just a small relocation of a handful of servers or less. However, the foremost important consideration is planning. Planning in itself has many components and aspects which I will not go into detail here.
Planning is the most important and yet, it is nearly always the one aspect that is not treated with the diligence and respect it requires; or it is a victim of cost/time cutting. The reason for this is simple; planning is the single most time consuming component of a relocation project or any other project for that matter. Quite honestly, you cannot do enough planning. Lack of planning results in mistakes, accidents and omissions leading to extended downtime, potential reputation loss, loss of revenue, legal proceedings, corrupted or lost data, malfunctioning components and potential warranty/replacement issues.
I have personally been involved in extremely large and complex data centre relocation moves to the moves that only involve a handful of hardware having complete success on each occasion. I have seen successful moves and moves that have gone awfully pear shaped with some of the simplest of moves causing extensive downtime and product malfunction. Why? Because it was not consider necessary to undertake comprehensive planning.
Whether you are moving an entire data centre or just one server make sure you plan it properly. Or suffer the consequences, like the unemployment queue.
There are many challenges and many considerations to a relocation whether it is a large and complex relocation or just a small relocation of a handful of servers or less. However, the foremost important consideration is planning. Planning in itself has many components and aspects which I will not go into detail here.
Planning is the most important and yet, it is nearly always the one aspect that is not treated with the diligence and respect it requires; or it is a victim of cost/time cutting. The reason for this is simple; planning is the single most time consuming component of a relocation project or any other project for that matter. Quite honestly, you cannot do enough planning. Lack of planning results in mistakes, accidents and omissions leading to extended downtime, potential reputation loss, loss of revenue, legal proceedings, corrupted or lost data, malfunctioning components and potential warranty/replacement issues.
I have personally been involved in extremely large and complex data centre relocation moves to the moves that only involve a handful of hardware having complete success on each occasion. I have seen successful moves and moves that have gone awfully pear shaped with some of the simplest of moves causing extensive downtime and product malfunction. Why? Because it was not consider necessary to undertake comprehensive planning.
Whether you are moving an entire data centre or just one server make sure you plan it properly. Or suffer the consequences, like the unemployment queue.