✦ Overview of the system relocation service ✦
– The IT equipment and information system relocation service moves infrastructure from a server room or data center, or the IT devices inside a data center, from the old location to a new one so that the system works normally after the move.
– The result on handover is a fully relocated system, with confirmed stable operation before the move, along with system documentation for the new location.
✦ A detailed server room relocation plan ✦
Once you have decided to relocate, consolidate or combine systems, you must consider the project’s objectives fully and accurately. This delivers the best results while protecting the organisation’s assets:
• Define clear objectives and success criteria.
• Choose a strategy and approach that fit the objectives.
• Assess the financial and non-financial benefits.
• Define requirements and constraints on quality, schedule and cost.
• Identify risks and threats and plan how to address them.
• Consider in-house versus outsourced, temporary versus long-term.
• Identify the resources, skills and services needed to deliver.
• Make sure the plan has enough information for decisions.
✦ The server relocation service process ✦
Step 1: detailed survey of the current system and the relocation site.
Step 2: check and label the server system.
Step 3: begin dismantling the cabling in the departments.
Step 4: dismantle the network, phone and power sockets at the workstations.
Step 5: dismantle the network and phone patch panels.
Step 6: dismantle the switches and routers.
Step 7: dismantle the servers.
Step 8: dismantle the UPS power system.
Step 9: move the rack to the new location.
Step 10: install the signal cabling.
Step 11: reconnect the patch panels.
Step 12: install the UPS power system.
Step 13: install the switches and routers.
Step 14: power the devices from the UPS.
Step 15: power on the devices.
Step 16: check the ADSL and fibre-optic internet signal.
Step 17: mount the servers in the rack.
Step 18: complete the cabling and patch leads for all devices.
Step 19: start the servers and check the connection.
Step 20: connect the PABX system.
Step 21: measure and test the network and phone end-point signals.
Step 22: acceptance testing and handover.
✨ GPIT, with a highly skilled engineering team, provides server relocation to a standard, professional process, ensuring no impact on your business operations.
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