Consolidations and Migrations

Extropy has the tribal knowledge required to cost effectively spearhead Data Center consolidations and migrations.

 

Today’s data center ecosystem is complicated, often spanning multiple locations forming complex redundant systems requiring expensive resources to maintain and operate. Compounding these challenges, outdated facilities, space utilization, systems, and overall strategy may be inhibiting your growth. Consolidating data centers can reduce the requirements of maintaining expensive redundancies, simplify operational support and logistics, and reduce overall cost.

 

Extropy can help you develop a solid strategy to consolidate your data centers, or elements within your existing facilities, and execute on that strategy. We have experts to assess, design, and transform your data centers in Networking, Storage, Servers, Applications, and Facilities.

 

SOLUTION ELEMENTS

Our solutions vary based on your needs, but common elements of these solutions and their deliverables are:

 

Strategy

Plan a comprehensive strategy that fits your business model and specific needs, including location and number of data centers, Build-Buy-Lease, technology requirements and roadmap, and long term needs assessment.

     Deliverables:

  • Review of current Data Center strategy

  • Assessment of your current design and facilities, systems infrastructure and operations

  • Business case development

  • Technology and facility requirements definition

  • Migration road map


 

 

Discovery

A thorough understanding of what you have in your data centers, the infrastructure supporting them, and the operations managing it all, is critical to a successful migration and consolidation. Our consultants will work to understand every detail of your data centers identifying key dependencies between systems, applications, people and process. We will assess your current assets to determine which assets should be retired, upgraded, or replaced.

     Deliverables:

  • Asset inventory, ownership, tagging, photos, and tracking

  • Identification of every device’s physical connection

  • Identification of every devices power requirements

  • Identification of equipment to be decommissioned

  • Application mapping

  • Device and application dependencies

  • Rack elevations and network drawings

  • Risk identification


 

 

 

Design and Planning

Combining a thorough discovery and a solid strategy with your business goals and technology needs, will allow for a comprehensive design and implementation plan to be developed. The design and planning phase will leverage your assets and money in the most efficient manner possible; identify risks; develop concrete plans; and mitigate risks through strong contingency planning; and plan a successful migration sensitive to the interdependencies of people, process and technology.

     Deliverables:

  • RFP creation and assessment for facilities and technology

  • High and low level designs of technology systems

  • Proof of concept development

  • Pseudo Operational Network Domain (POND) testing

  • Staging of new equipment when able

  • Detailed migration plans for systems and applications

  • Risk mitigation and contingency planning

  • Co-ordination and planning with all vendors

  • Development of overall move plans and strategies


 

 

 

Migration

Whether you’re consolidating, retrofitting, moving, or migrating one or several data centers, do it on time, within budget, and with piece of mind. We will comprehensively plan and efficiently migrate your data centers.

     Deliverables:

  • Program and Project Management

  • Detailed migration planning breaking the moves into manageable move groups

  • Move day planning down to 15min increments

  • Decommissioning of retired assets

  • Detailed design drawings, rack elevations and port mapping

  • Management of vendors for move certification

  • Uninstalling and reinstallation of assets

  • Physical migration of assets

  • Migration of applications, servers and storage

  • Connections, power up, testing and certification of assets

  • Network and other system configurations

  • Troubleshooting and resolution of any technical issues


 

 

 

Partner with the thought leaders at Extropy on your Data Center consolidation and migration initiatives and assure your project’s success .