Data center consolidation
Bring scattered equipment and regional data centers together into one facility. MIGRA plans the consolidation, moves what's going, decommissions what isn't, and helps you close the old site.
What a data center consolidation involves
A consolidation combines equipment from several rooms, buildings or sites into one data center. It's the right time to retire what you no longer need and refresh what you keep, but it carries every risk of a relocation plus the work of merging environments.
It starts with inventories: hardware, applications, and every component that will be relocated or consolidated, with model and serial numbers, configurations, replacement value, vendor contacts, and how each system is de-installed and re-installed.
The destination must be ready, with fire suppression, cooling adequate for projected growth, utilities and network in place. And while you're focused on the destination, equipment that won't move must be decommissioned and the old facility closed.
Our consolidation services
- Inventory, dependency mapping and consolidation planning
- Design of the consolidated future state, including net new equipment
- De-racking, packing, secure transport and re-racking
- Decommissioning, hard drive destruction and equipment disposal
- Disaster recovery planning to protect operations during the move
Data center consolidation projects
Two consolidations MIGRA completed ahead of schedule.
Scattered equipment consolidated into one new data center
Space limits had left most of this bank's equipment scattered throughout the building. MIGRA led eight months of planning and moved 200 devices into a new state-of-the-art data center over a holiday weekend, finishing the physical move in 8 hours.
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A regional data center consolidated into headquarters
MIGRA moved 400 servers and devices 1,600 miles by chartered DC-9 so they could be integrated into the existing data center at headquarters, completing the move within 30 hours against a 48-hour estimate.
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What is data center consolidation?
Data center consolidation combines equipment from several rooms, buildings or sites into one data center. It is often paired with retiring equipment you no longer need and refreshing what you keep.
What happens to equipment that isn't being moved?
MIGRA decommissions it: hard drive destruction and disposal of electronic equipment, cooling systems and infrastructure, handled by technicians who know the precautions and regulations involved.
How do you plan a data center consolidation?
Planning starts with a detailed inventory of every component to be relocated or consolidated, then a design of the consolidated future state and an implementation plan with move groups, rack layouts and a day-of-move plan.
Have you consolidated data centers before?
Yes. MIGRA consolidated a bank's scattered equipment into one new data center, moving 200 devices in 8 hours, and consolidated a regional data center into a company's headquarters by moving 400 devices 1,600 miles in 30 hours.
Planning a data center consolidation?
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