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 60 Rack Installation.
Data Center Installation and Migration
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Our experienced data center engineers and technicians will install a brand new data center or migrate your existing data center to a new location.
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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Your data center design is out of date and needs full re-design for optimal performance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
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Cost
While it’s impossible to predict a cost without knowing any details, you can get a general idea on pricing from our latest data center migration project:
We moved 60 racks, the client paid $250,000.
It took a team of:
– 2 data center engineers
– 1 network engineer
– 2 technicians
– 1 Project manager
Time Frame
Using the same example, an estimate time frame to move 60 racks is 4-5 months.
Total is 4-5 months for 60 racks
Time frame breakdown:
1 month to analyze an existing infrastructure and build a detailed plan
2 months for physical migration/installation
1-2 months for post-operations
Quality Guaranteed of installation and relocation of data centers
We guarantee quality and remove any risk on your part by not charging you any upfront fees. You only pay us in full when our work is fully completed, tested out and you are 100% satisfied with the performance results.You pay as you go for only completed portions of work and if you’re satisfied.
Why Should You Consider Migrating Your Data Center?
One of the major reasons is huge savings! Let’s use our earlier example again.
60
Server Racks
3
Months of Labor
900000
Data Center Cost Savings Per Year
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.
Here are the Facts
17
Years of Experience
500
Networks Designed
2000
Servers Racked
10000
Servers Managed
00
Security Breaches
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