[AusNOG] Bulk Movement of Sensitive Computer Equipment

[Tony]

Don't you just push it off the back of the truck :)

It's probably a bit late to add my $0.02 but we were moving a rack loaded with gear once (IBM iSeries with SAN) and had booked COPE. They hadn't shown up my about midday and so we called them up and they had "misplaced" our booking. The rest of the datacenter had already been moved to the new location (along with most comms) and so it had to be done on the day. We called mini-movers (local residential removalist) who sent a truck around in a couple of hours and we got the rack moved same day.

Using mini-movers was a calculated risk, but all backup procedures had been taken (full tapes & DR procedures up to date & tested along with DR rack in a seperate location that wasn't being moved). If we hadn't moved the rack that day we would have had to failover to the DR rack/location anyway, so if the truck crashed or the gear was damaged we wouldn't be any worse off than not moving (apart from having to do a complete reubild of the primary server/rack and file insurance claims, etc).

It all went smoothly in the end and after pizza & beer at around 2000 that evening the rack was up and running at the new location but NOT moved by COPE.

regards,
Tony.

--- On Wed, 3/6/09, Michael RISBY <michael.risby at ap.equinix.com> wrote:

From: Michael RISBY <michael.risby at ap.equinix.com>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Bulk Movement of Sensitive Computer Equipment
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Date: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 11:32 PM

Should of specified with the tailgate lift.  You would be surprised at how many people don’t specify it and are then stuck with no way of getting the hardware off the back of the truck.  From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Hooper
Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 7:58 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Bulk Movement of Sensitive Computer Equipment  Yep.. those tailgates are handy things, they generally stop items rolling out the back of the truck..  From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Michael RISBY
Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 3:08 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Bulk Movement of Sensitive Computer Equipment  I would recommend COPE or Computer Trans.  Would also recommend that the trucks have airbag suspension as well as a tailgate.  Computer trans is good in the way that they deliver all their goods on trolleys which makes it easy for all of your equipment that is loose to be transported from a loading dock to wherever you need them to go. COPE is good in the way which they lay out ply wood to reinforce the raised floor for the larger HDD arrays which are around or above the weight of 1000kg’s.  End decision will be yours based upon the quotation received which is why I’m assuming that you are asking for opinions of others.  Best of luck.  From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Scott Howard
Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 12:25 PM
To: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Bulk Movement of Sensitive Computer Equipment  I've used both COPE and Hi-Tech extensively for everything from single servers to entire corporate datacenters.

We did have one glitch with COPE on a new system delivery (if you can call dropping and destroying a million dollar server a "glitch"), but their relocation people have been very good every time I've worked with them.

If you're moving systems in racks I would strongly recommend making sure that they use "air-ride" suspension trucks.  Most of the COPE trucks are, but not all of the Hi-Tech ones are.

  Scott.On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ben Cornish <benc at brennanit.com.au> wrote:All, We have a client moving multiple racks of IBM kit into another Data Centre.The Client intends on moving equipment in rack with insurance also. We have received various quotes back with vastly different costs. I was curious on any recommendations out there on who people use and any feedback. Thanks Ben Cornish
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