Data Center Migration · Canada
Data Center Migration in Vancouver
Data center migration in Vancouver means moving servers and network equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. Reboot Monkey engineers carry out the physical move inside the facilities that other companies own and run, either as the whole project or alongside your own team.
In Vancouver
- Data Center Migration
- Data Center Decommissioning
- Rack and Stack
- Remote Hands
- Server Migration
- Colocationon request
- Smart Handson request
- ITADon request
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Data Center Migration in Vancouver
VANIX, the Vancouver Internet Exchange, says it is based in Vancouver and positioned to serve networks across Western Canada and beyond. VANIX is a not for profit internet exchange that says it is helping Western Canada become an essential destination in the global internet ecosystem. For a company with equipment in Vancouver, that is the setting in which a move takes place: the racks, the interconnection and the building all belong to parties other than the customer, and a migration has to be planned around that.
Harbour Centre Vancouver stands on West Hastings St in Vancouver. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own datacenters and it is not a hosting company, so a migration is delivered inside the facility that houses your equipment, or between two of them, never from a building of its own. That also means the work is independent of any one landlord: the same approach applies whether you are leaving a facility, entering one or consolidating from several.
A migration is rarely only a transport job. Equipment is disconnected, labelled, moved, remounted, recabled and tested, and the connectivity around it has to be ready before the hardware arrives. Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack as well as the hands that install it, so the cross connects and carrier circuits for the destination can be ordered from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility as part of the same project.
Datacenter Facilities in Vancouver
Data centres in Vancouver, ordered by the number of networks present:
- Harbour Centre Vancouver (Polaris Realty), 555 West Hastings St., Vancouver V6B 4N6: 61 networks; carriers Arelion and Ziply Fiber
- Cologix VAN2 (Cologix, Inc.), 1050 W Pender Street, Vancouver V6E 3S7: 39 networks; carriers Arelion and Ziply Fiber
- Cologix VAN3 (Cologix, Inc.), 2828 Natal Street, Vancouver V5M 2H1: 32 networks; carriers Ziply Fiber
- Cologix VAN1 (Cologix, Inc.), 555 West Hastings St, Vancouver V6B 1N9: 27 networks
- eStruxture VAN-2 (eStruxture Data Centers Inc.), 555 W Hastings St, 21N, Vancouver V6B 4N6: 17 networks
- Tech Futures YVR1 (Tech Futures Interactive Inc.), 2828 Natal Street, Vancouver V5M 2H1: 11 networks
- eStruxture VAN-1 (eStruxture Data Centers Inc.), 55 East 7th Ave, Vancouver V5T 1M4: 7 networks
- PureColo VAN01 (Vancouver) (PureColo Inc.), 200 Burrard St, Vancouver BC V6C 3L6: 6 networks
- PureColo Harbour Centre MMR6B (Carrier Connect Systems Ltd.), 555 Hastings St W, Vancouver BC V6B 0B2, V6B 4N6: 5 networks
- Cologix VAN4 (Cologix, Inc.), 175 Cordova St W, Vancouver BC V6B 1E1: 3 networks; carriers Ziply Fiber
Our Data Center Migration Services
Server migration is defined as moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. In Vancouver, Reboot Monkey engineers handle that physical work in the customer's facility and can combine it with the neighbouring services a move usually needs. The split of responsibility is a project decision: Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move or work alongside the customer's own team, and who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project.
The services that typically surround a migration are listed below, each used only where the project calls for it.
- Rack and stack: installing, mounting and cabling new hardware at the destination.
- Remote hands: physical tasks carried out on your instruction, such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks.
- Smart hands: technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge.
- Connectivity: cross connects and carrier circuits ordered from the facility operator and the carriers present, with Reboot Monkey engineers installing and patching the cabling in your rack.
- Data center decommissioning: removing and disposing of retired hardware once the move is complete.
- IT asset disposition (ITAD): data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case.
- Hardware monitoring: monitoring of your servers and network equipment by the Reboot Monkey NOC after the move.
Why Reboot Monkey
The facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules. Within that boundary, Reboot Monkey is responsible for the physical work on your equipment and for keeping the project documented from start to finish.
Continuity on the day matters as much as the plan. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so a single absence does not stop a scheduled move. Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations as of 2026, which is relevant when a Vancouver migration is one part of a larger programme that also touches sites elsewhere.
Because Reboot Monkey sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware alongside the services that install and support them, one supplier can cover the equipment, the connectivity and the physical move. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. To scope a Vancouver migration, send the source and destination, the equipment list and your preferred division of work through the contact page, and the quote follows from those details.
How Reboot Monkey Works
These terms apply in every facility in Vancouver where Reboot Monkey engineers work.
- Response: 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA, and a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. The incident response SLA covers incidents and unplanned requests; on-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
- Monitoring: 24/7 NOC monitoring across all facilities, covering IPMI, iDRAC, SNMP, temperature, power, network signals.
- Hardware: vendor-neutral technicians for Dell, HP, Cisco, Juniper and Arista equipment.
- Independence: independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff).
- One agreement: single provider across cities, so a customer in several cities needs only one agreement.
- Service levels and terms: https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/solutions/sla
- Published case study: a major ICT provider engaged Reboot Monkey for three full infrastructure rollouts in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, with the hardware installed the same day at every site. Read the case study at https://www.rebootmonkey.com/en/resources/case-study/how-we-completed-3-full-deployments-across-pakistan
Vancouver
The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does data center migration cover in Vancouver?
It covers moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities in Vancouver. Reboot Monkey engineers can run the whole physical move or work alongside your own team, and who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project. Related work such as rack and stack, cabling, decommissioning of retired hardware and ITAD can be added to the same project.
Do you work in every datacenter in Vancouver?
Reboot Monkey engineers work in any facility in Vancouver where the customer has equipment and access, under the operator's own access and safety rules. The customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list before the first visit.
How fast can Reboot Monkey respond in Vancouver?
Incidents and unplanned requests are handled under a 1-hour, around-the-clock incident response SLA. There is also a 15 minute premium response available where technicians are stationed on-site, as a paid add-on. On-site, dispatch and resolution times, priority tiers, and planned or scheduled work are agreed per site in the service agreement.
How is Reboot Monkey different from the facility operator's own staff?
Facility operators' own technicians work for the building. Reboot Monkey engineers work for the customer: they are independent from facility operators (not Equinix SmartHands, not NTT staff), follow the customer's instructions, and the same team can cover several buildings in the city under one agreement.
How do I get started with data center migration in Vancouver?
Send the site, the equipment and the task through the contact form. Reboot Monkey replies with a quote and an engineer plan for that facility. Once agreed, the customer adds the engineers to the facility's access list and the data center migration work is scheduled under the operator's rules.
Plan your Vancouver migration
Send the source, the destination and the equipment list, and Reboot Monkey will quote the job.