DataCenter Installation and Migration in Los Angeles

Our experienced data center engineers will install a brand new data center or migrate your existing data center to a new location

This service is for you if…

Your installation is growing and requires bigger space that is not available at the current location.
You are overpaying for your current data center setup.
Your data center hardware is getting old and you need to refresh it.
Your data center design is out of date and needs full re-design for optimal performance.
There are power and/or cooling problems at your current data center facility.

What should you expect from a datacenter Installation?

Being 100% vendor neutral and using 17+ years of experience, we can share our tips on choosing the right data center for you.

This is an example of a recent 60 Racks migration project:

60 racks to migrate
A team of 6 people to migrate everything *
Time frame: 5 months **
Cost: $250,000.00
Saving: over $1,000,000.00 per year

* The team included 2 technicians, 3 data center engineer, 1 project manager.
** 1 month to prepare, 2 months to migrate, 2 months for post-migration.

Data Center Modernization is a Complicated and Extensive Process

Hire professionals at AV5, sit back, and enjoy all the benefits of enormous savings and optimized data center performance.

Call us to get started or DIY using the following step by step guide to Data Center Migration.

Business Analysis

Analyze your data center

Any data center consists of multiple moving parts that work together and may affect each other. Besides, your data center will last at least 3-5 years before you can find a better place for your business needs in the future.

Aspects to consider:

Will the data center have enough cooling/power for your current and future requirements?
How far are your customers located?
What are the most optimal carriers you may need?
Will your data center provider have enough capacity for future expansions?
Is data center resistant to natural disasters?

At this point, we can help to build financial reports after analyzing your current and new contracts such as:

When does the current contract expire?
What’s an estimate of the migration?
What is a possible impact on your business

Design your data center and core.

After you make an initial decision to migrate, it’s about time to make initial plan

As the first move, we will install racks, power distribution units.

Design your footprint and power structure
Design your cure network structure.
Detailed plan of power, servers, network installations

Now, your data center installation has racks installed and at that point, it’s time to install your core network and run copper and fibers. Depending on budget, goal, and possible habits, network structure can be :

Distribution core switches and Top of Rack (ToR) switches
Core switches and fabric extenders.
Chassis design with mixes of switches.

Our network engineers will design or work with your engineers on every step of migration . We will make the very detailed schedule to migrate or install your servers. And schedule will depend on your servers’ data flow to minimize impact of the migration (or installation) process.

Interconnect Your Data Centers (optional)
If you’re reallocating your data center, it’s a l a long process and components of your enterprise application still need to talk to each other. And we always try to connect the old and new data center to each other using WAN, LAN, MPLS technologies to organize temporal wide network covering both data centers. Once migration is over, this network can be disassembled. This step reduces the possible impact on your business

Preparation

The next, we will make the very detailed schedule to migrate or install your servers. And schedule will depend on your servers’ data flow to minimize impact of the migration (or installation) process

Create Work Break Structure (WBS) And Schedule

This step is one of the most complicated and requires all project managers, network and infrastructure engineers to be on board and work as a single brain. Depending on your applications’ design, we can assist your project managers to design roll-back steps, or alternative for each small step of the map.

Dispose your old equipment. At this point we work with your taxation department so that disposing hardware is reflected in your tax report. And we will work with one of our partners to recycle your old equipment.technologies to organize temporal wide network covering both data centers. Once migration is over, this network can be disassembled. This step reduces the possible impact on your business

Migrate / Install your data center

We Build the infrastructure in your new data center.

We will make a very detailed schedule to install your servers and related hardware

Network switches
Backup servers
CPU-intensive Servers
Storage servers
GPU servers for AI

Our experienced data center technicians can install or migrate your servers and our infrastructure engineers can perform initial configuration for you or work with your engineers.

We work with a few transportation companies, which are very professional while packing and transporting your equipment.

Post-Installation Procedure

Build documentation

One of most boring tasks but you will be very thankful in future, especially when you run data center for years

Racks map
Network map
IP configuration and access information

We also build IT assets database so that you can always know what you have installed, their lifetime, and part numbers if you need a replacement.

Monitoring

Nothing is perfect and electronic components die, and it’s very critical that everything is monitored properly so that you will know of any possible problem immediately and take further action.

Temperature and humidity inside of your cage(s)
Voltage and components of each server
Network equipment

We can set up a monitoring system and, even more, provide 24/7 support for your business

Disposing of your old equipment.

At this point we work with your taxation department so that disposing hardware is reflected in your tax report. And we will work with one of our partners to recycle your old equipment.

What our customers say

"Their knowledge of IT support is hands down the best I have ever worked with"
AV5’s team has been incredibly helpful and professional. Their knowledge of IT support is hands down the best I have ever worked with. This includes basic hosting to supporting our cloud, their customer service is exceptional for all of our needs we have. Most importantly beyond their extremely great IT skills is the trust we have in AV5 to handle all aspects of our needs.
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Leo RyzhenkoCEO, USRobotics

"The team, that Vitali put together is, hands down, one of the best in the industry"
I have used AV5 on multiple occasions. The team, that Vitali put together is, hands down, one of the best in the industry. They have a customer-comes-first organization. I have full faith and trust in their work.
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Hovanes Ferikian

"These guys consider our tasks and issues as their own"
AV5 has been a reliable source for our data center and our network service needs for over 5 years. Due to the stability of AV5’s services, we were able to shift our data center projects to AV5 and concentrate on our business goals. These guys consider our tasks and issues as their own.
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COO at SaaSHealthcare Company

CONTACT US

If you are interested in migration services with AV5 experts, you can contact us to receive a free consultation. During this consultation, a managed IT solutions specialist will work with you to understand your specific needs and requirements, and will prepare a proposal based on this information.