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For corporate data centres, a successful migration is critical to the success of an office move. There is a number of considerations that must be made to ensure that everything runs smoothly and causes minimum downtime. These migration methods will ensure that your corporate data centre is relocated efficiently and without error. Data migration plans include virtual migrations, pick-up and ships, complete shut downs and restoration and finally application fail-over. Virtual migrations are exactly how they sound. This is also the least disruptive method and causes minimal downtime. The virtual process includes the migration of virtual servers that are already in place and running. Virtual migrations can take up to 50% of the overall data centre move, so getting it right is crucial. Pick-up and ship migrations are the complete opposite and cause the most disruption and downtime. This method involves physically shutting the servers down, relocating and restarting them. Shutdowns and restorations are another way of completing a full operating system restoration. This method is best suited to physical servers and anything that does not include VMware. And finally, application fail-overs is the process of actually failing the applications. Causing minimum downtime, the application fail-over method relies on application upgrades and does not require any relocation's. Puffin Solutions is an international data cabling specialist. They supply, install and manage corporate data centres and provide them with state of the art data centre installations.
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