Moving to Server Colocation Facility – Start Planning Early!

When you are moving to a server colocation facility, the most important point that is needed is a concrete plan. Otherwise your move would be an ad hoc one, which will definitely not be a smoother transition.

Why to Choose Server Colocation?

When it comes to IT world, the most coveted word in the industry is “mobility”. With increasing cost and prevailing geo-political scenario, there has been constant pressure on businesses to concentrate more on core business areas. This is the reason why there is a need for business houses (no matter what the size is – small, medium, or large), to move their workload from in-house services to colocation facility. There has been a cost advantage too for the companies because they don’t need to keep system staffs by choosing colocation facilities in data centers in India. With this move, the major events can be shifted from the admin team in-house. Therefore, the admin team can concentrate more on core business areas and the flab can be shed.

Server Colocation – Best Practices

In this section, best practice checklist is given so that you can move servers to a colocation facility with little downtime. While preparing for the migration, careful preparation is required. The planning parts and steps are mentioned herein:

#1 The first thing that is needed to be evaluated is the requirement of the trio – power, space, and cooling – for the servers.

Ideally, the move should include shifting of whole racks of gear that has intact in-rack cabling. However, it has been seen that colocation facility comes with own pre-wired racks, which are indeed backbone of the networks. If this is the case, it should be kept in mind that the distribution may be different in the facility than the same on premises. Gear’s physical map may need change if server layout changes.
While making the move to a server colocation facility in a data center in India, it must be kept in mind that there may be system downtime involved. If there are servers that are dedicated to specific workload, your IT team must be capable of:

• Turning them off,
• Move them, and then
• Turn them on without any kind of user impact

#2 There are systems that need high uptime. In such a case, a more flexible approach is preferred. This is where virtualized servers are most required. With the virtualized systems in place, system subset can be used for running a job. This helps in shutting down the system partially. With a proper moving plan in place, several server days for servers with adequate downtime window can be opened. It gives your IT team enough time for setting up the network properly. In fact, on-site testing can be done too by the IT team before they restore the units to service. While moving to a server colocation facility, new routers and switches may be needed for set-up as firewalled zone is required in a shared environment.

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