Published on 06 August 2009
If you’ve ever had to pack up all of your personal
belongings and move across town, from one state to another, or to
another part of the country, you know how stressful moving can be.
Multiply your personal move by a factor of 1000, and you just might
start to appreciate the stress facing the IT team when considering
a data center move or migration.
Being responsible for the day-to-day operations of
the enterprise can be stressful enough, let alone managing a full
migration project, where you’re responsible for moving all of the
corporate IT assets from one site to another – of course with minimal
impact to the business.
Organizations migrate their technologies or consolidate their facilities
and data center(s) for a variety of reasons. Current trends show
most companies facing insufficient power source and availability
from the power utility provider, and insufficient cooling or lack
of properly conditioned space within their existing facilities.
As a result, most data center managers have had to rely on “work-arounds”
at some point to quickly buy more time, despite the limitations
this represents.
Some common work-arounds include:
- Overloading cabinets with high density equipment
- Excessive power distribution scheme within cabinets
- Lack of primary and secondary power source within cabinets
- Utilizing sub-standard rooms as temporary server rooms for
mission critical systems (or systems deemed as tier 2 or 3 that
might actually be interdependent with critical systems)
Unfortunately, the end result is often more infrastructure failures
and lack of service with hot zones (over-heating within the data
center), network and power outages, and more.
To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal
website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3068/40/
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