Information Technology
Certified Data Centre Migration Specialist (CDMS®)
This course is designed to expose participants to a step-by-step methodology which will enable them to reduce the risks involved when undertaking a data centre migration. It will also give participants a lot of valuable practical hints and tips by trainers having extensive experience in moving and consolidating mission critical data centre.
2 Days
16 Hrs
13 Lessons
Course Objectives
After completion of the course the participant will be able to:
- 1. Develop and review their data centre strategy 2. Use different risk assessment methodologies together with practical tips specifically for data centre migrations to reduce the risk during a data centre migration 3. Understand different migration strategies 4. Understand the legal aspects when migrating a data centre 5. Understand the importance of Business Service Reviews and Service Level Objectives 6. Size and design the target data centre 7. Understand the importance of detailed discovery and how dependencies influence migration waves 8. Understand the safety requirements during migration 19. Get lots of practical tips when moving to another data centre
Agenda
- Data centre lifecycle
- Reasons to migrate a data centre
- Alternatives to data centre migration
- Consolidation
- Outsourcing
- Cloud computing
- Upgrade existing data centre or build new
- Project management and methods
- Scope statement
- Statement Of Work (SOW)
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Allocate time to the project
- Cost and estimation methodology
- Project communication
- Risk management and methods
- Risk identification
- Risk assessment methodologies
- Qualitative approach
- Semi-quantitative approach
- Quantitative approach
- Risk evaluation
- Risk treatment
- Risk in data centre migrations
- Different data centre migration strategies
- Heterogeneous migration
- Homogeneous migration
- Physical migration
- Different IT transformations
- Pre-migration transformation
- Migration transformation
- Post-migration transformation
- Regulatory requirements
- Contractual considerations
- Legal aspects when decommissioning
- The importance of Business Service Reviews
- The concept of Availability
- The concept of Recoverability
- The importance of Service Level Objectives
- Requirements on designing the target IT architecture
- Information needed for high level planning
- Requirements for the target data centre
- Sizing the data centre
- Architectural requirements
- Cooling requirements
- Power requirements
- Security
- The importance of discovery
- Automated discovery tools
- Asset management
- Network and system dependencies
- Detailed migration planning
- Migration waves
- Staffing
- Warranties and insurance
- Safety precautions
- Technical safety review
- Electrical safety
- Lifting
- Personal safety during migration
- Fire safety during migration
- Controversy between access and security
- Access control
- Managing security during migration
- Security during migration
- Key management
- Practical hints and tips
- Continuous improvement
- Rehearsal
- Route investigation
- Resourcing
- Logistics team
- Packing
- Transport
- Installing the equipment
- Post migration support
- Why project closure
- Lessons learned
- Phased completion of project
- Criteria for project closure
- The outcome of the project
- End of project
- Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.
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Course Type: Instructor Led