As you know, in fact some of the components possibly would get damaged in the process of a datacenter transit, owing to the fact the Information Technology equipments are highly delicate and fragile can easily breakable. Instead of your cautious handling and packing about 15-20% of your equipments are anyhow prone to get damaged. Hence arranging good vendor support becomes an integral part of datacenter moving. The datacenter can be put back to service with readily quick delivery without a delay from equipment vendors as soon as you observe any damage to a component.
Meeting and apprising your hardware vendors and Telco vendors before the actual move would be a welcome step as it ensures that they will be better equipped to help in case of an emergency. You can also negotiate a deal so that they will promptly assist you on the day of moving and the day which follows. There are many reasons why it becomes necessary.
The most important reason is that moving servers are always with risk. You may surely after a shifting move have to replace a couple of hard drives or may be a power supply or two. In addition to that, moves often take place on the weekends, especially at night. And on holidays night it would be very difficult to find a vendor. Hence a responsible hardware vendor should be kept on to save precious time as a standby. By keeping Telco vendors ready for service you can ensure a hassles free connectivity. It should be remembered that a time-gap in service would bring a huge financial losses to the datacenter operator. Thus in data center moving vendors support plays a crucial role.
You should also discuss on the issue of problems, once the vendor agrees to promptly be at your help. While in the shifting process if all the servers are destroyed it is necessary to know how much of time it would take the hardware to get replaced the machines. As it may be a couple to days to get your insurance settlement check, you should get it cleared if it is possible to order the replacement machines before you get the insurance check.
Thus by ensuring proper vendor support you can be better prepared to overcome the perils linked with datacenter shifting. But you should cross check and verify the credentials of the vendors before finalizing any deal so as to avoid inconveniences at a later stage.
Bruce Currin does Data Center Migrations. Find out more about Data center migration at his website about Datacenter relocation.