Hi, Gabe, This sounds like a query for Dennis. :)
Barb On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you moved a data center? What was involved? How much "fun" was it? > What was involved, from start to finish? Does the old disruption rule, "two > moves equals one fire" apply? > > Please share lessons learned, gotchas suffered or avoided, "if only" > wishes, war stories, etc. Here's some thinking points (not necessarily in > project order, listed for completeness)... > > - Was the move worse than an data center build, initial installation, > or upgrade? > - Planning > - Schedule, timeline, milestones > - Logistics > - DIY move vs. contractors/subcontractors > - Site preparation, e.g., check outlet before plugging in anything too > stupid to protect against bad circuit. I saw one vendor's (not IBM) > equipment burned out when field manager didn't check power. > - Achieving non-stop operation or outage tolerable? > - Business continuity during execution > - Flexibility during execution > - Move equipment vs. install all new? > - Incremental move or big-bang cutover? > - Parallel operation of old/new data centers? > - Back-out plan or point-of-no-return? > - Transition period? > - Testing > - Software licensing > - Costs > - Results, assessment, postmortem, etc. > > As usual, please copy reply to me so it's not lost in list digest. > > Thanks... > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. [email protected] > 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold Twitter: GabeG0 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
