Data center migration job

What exactly are we talking about there...any real details? I see jobs posted for this, but it doesnt really say much specifically...anyone here do this type of job before? if so, what exactly are you doing?

Data Center Project Manager job - vTech Solution Inc - Houston, TX | Indeed.com

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joelsfood

In my experience, datacenter migration includes specing and obtaining lines from telcos, designing network and storage infrastructure, planning each step of migration from old datacenter to new datacenter (data and applications, including minimizing downtime, etc). Every project is different. I'm working on one moving to another state, 10gb link between them, 50 or so racks, mix of live vmotions and cold cutovers, while I've done DCMs that were just moving into another rack at same colo, but changing from all physical to all virtual. Scale and requirements vary greatly by project.

http://www.infosys.com/consulting/information-management/white-papers/Documents/data-center-migration.pdf

zcarenow

joelsfood wrote: »

In my experience, datacenter migration includes specing and obtaining lines from telcos, designing network and storage infrastructure, planning each step of migration from old datacenter to new datacenter (data and applications, including minimizing downtime, etc). Every project is different. I'm working on one moving to another state, 10gb link between them, 50 or so racks, mix of live vmotions and cold cutovers, while I've done DCMs that were just moving into another rack at same colo, but changing from all physical to all virtual. Scale and requirements vary greatly by project.

http://www.infosys.com/consulting/information-management/white-papers/Documents/data-center-migration.pdf

Very good explanations. I had been part of data center migration, but only just one part. It was gathering the information from customers(server owners) on preparation from P2V, but i never actually was doing the P2V in itself. This was a few years ago at my previous job, thus the job description here was a bit foreign to me. I guess when people ask about DC migration, we have to ask in depth on what that person did. There is also the facilities side of the migration regarding power, electrical wiring, etc. which is handled by the data center facilities manager. Also, some companies have the data center manager working on the technical side like you mentioned along with data center migration analyst. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

My guess is that they compensated you very well for this project? Also, most of these jobs are like 2-3 yr contracts right? Then, you have to find another job doing the same stuff for another company?