Focus in setup & transition
Core task: inventory & planning
Planning, design & project mangement for setting up, reconfiguring or constructing DC capacities on the basis of customer requirements, including naming and technical specification of (high availability) requirements for Data Center Move Management.
Our services in DC Setup / DC Transition
- Determination of "interdependencies" between infrastructure components and between applications using "dicovery" and analysis methods (communication pattern analysis)
- Bundling of assets and/or "configuration items" (Cis) to logically related "move groups" under
- Consideration of customer specifications (e.g. downtime avoidance during prime time)
- Consideration of communication pattern analyses
- Consideration of possible move methods and their implementation requiremets (e.g. storage replication, online vMotion)
- Business alignment - coordination of move planning with the specialist departments and application / CI owners
- Determination of migration requirements (e.g. dedicated migration lines) for move scenarios or move execution
- Verification of technically possible migration/move methods (e.g. long-distance vMotion, Platespine,...) incl. pre-test and test evaluation (duration, throughput, performance, etc.)
- Definition and establishment of (technical) checkpoints and "quality gates" to secure every single migration/move event
- Defining "Quality Gates" with clearly defined decision criteria
- Assumption Change Management („Implement and adjust Change Processes within Service Operations according to selected Move methods”)
- „Risk & Issue Management“
- Creating Move Execution Runbooks at System Task level ("hands-on" level)
- Execution of "Move Execution" according to Runbooks / assumption of operational Move execution responsibility
- Own forwarding & transport logistics
