At the end of every IT room migration it is imperative that lessons learnt are identified and materials developed are gathered for reuse.  This process ensures that future IT room migrations continue to benefit from leading practices and knowledge is shared. The importance of lessons learnt Lessons learnt are experiences …

All non-required equipment should be physically decommissioned from the source IT room. This may include data destruction and physical disposal. Decommissioning the IT room equipment With the increased frequency of reported data breaches, it’s becoming more and more necessary for companies to decommissioning effective and reliable the data stored on …

Following successful handover to service delivery the IT room migration team will be expected to support any hyper-care support activities or other incidents that may arise due to migration. Hyper-care support After the migration, the administrators and business users can to perform the user acceptance testing. Explicit confirmation that all …

Following the successful migration, the IT room migration team should handover Business As Usual (BAU) management and support to the BAU support organisation. BAU Business as usual, the normal execution of standard functional operations within an organization, forms a possible contrast to projects or programmes which might introduce change. Handover …

It is imperative that lessons learned from each IT room migration event, especially rehearsals, are passed to future IT room migration events therefore formalization of the lessons learned process is a key activity. Lesson Learned A lesson learned is knowledge or understanding gained by experience. The experience may be positive, …

The contents of the migration event playbook and migration technical runbook provide an action plan that explicitly directs the preparation and execution of the migration event. Different kind of migrations can be part of the IT room migration. Data Migration Data migration is the process of transferring data between computer …

The contents of migration event playbook and migration technical runbook provide an action plan that explicitly directs the rehearsal of the migration event. If, as part of the IT room migration, application and / or data separation or transformation is required, perform the appropriate application and / or data transformation …

The “technical runbook” is a very detailed plan for the migration / relocation event. During its creation the runbook should be reviewed by all technical key stakeholders. Technical runbook A technical runbook is a compilation of routine procedures and operations that the system administrator or operator carries out. Technical runbooks can …

The creation of the migration event playbook establishes the management system for the migration event.  This includes the definition of management boards and the decision making framework including go/no go criteria. What is a migration event playbook? A migration event playbook is designed to coordinate all the activities associated with …

When an application environment is built, they are built in many steps (e.g., hardware installs, operating system install, SAN space allocation, database setup, etc.), and there will be tests along the way for each step. Most of technical steps go through vendor recommended or the company specific tests to validate …