Data Center Migration in Frankfurt

A data center migration is the physical relocation of servers and network equipment from one place to another. The move can be between racks, between rooms or between facilities. For a CTO or IT Director in Frankfurt, the physical move is where schedules slip, because it depends on people on site, on cabling and on the rules of the building. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. It does not own the buildings and is not a hosting company, so it carries out the move inside data centres that other companies own and run. Digital Realty Frankfurt FRA1-27 stands on Hanauer Landstrasse in Frankfurt.

The division of work is set at the start. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move, or it can work alongside the customer's own team. Who disconnects the equipment, who reconnects it and who tests it afterwards is agreed per project, so a customer that wants to keep its own administrators in charge of the final checks can do so, and a customer that wants one party accountable for the full move can have that instead. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so the work does not depend on a single person being available on the day.

Data centres in Frankfurt, ordered by the number of networks present:

Data center migration sits within the server migration work Reboot Monkey does: moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. A migration project rarely stands alone, so the surrounding physical services can be scoped into the same job. Rack and stack covers installing, mounting and cabling new hardware at the destination. Smart hands covers technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, for example when a moved system does not come up as expected. Remote hands covers physical tasks on the customer's instruction, such as reboots, cable checks, component swaps and visual checks.

Connectivity is part of the move as well. Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack. It orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. For a migration, that means the circuits for the destination can be ordered as part of the project rather than arranged separately, and the cabling in the rack is handled by the same engineers who place the equipment.

When the source site is being closed, the retired hardware can be removed and disposed of through data center decommissioning, and IT asset disposition covers data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, with resale or buyback quoted case by case. Hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC can follow the customer's servers and network equipment once they are running in their new location. Equinix FR5 stands on Kleyerstrasse in Frankfurt.

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. Reboot Monkey does not replace the operator and does not run the building. It supplies the engineers, the rack space, the network and the hardware that a migration needs, and it fits the move to the access rules of the site where the work happens.

There is one provider for the physical move and for the services around it. Reboot Monkey sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and data-centre hardware, and the services that deliver, install and support them, so a procurement manager can place the destination capacity and the move under one supplier relationship. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job, so a quote reflects the actual scope of the migration rather than a standard package.

For planning, the practical points are the agreed split of roles, the named backup engineer and the single supplier. Equinix FR7 stands on Gutleutstrasse in Frankfurt.

These terms apply in every facility in Frankfurt where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

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.

Reboot Monkey runs migrations in other German cities as well, including [Data Center Migration in Berlin](/en/data-center-migration/germany/berlin/). A company that is consolidating sites across Germany can plan the work with one provider and one way of working in each city. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations, so a move that crosses a border can be planned with the same supplier on both sides.

A migration usually touches several physical services. When the destination is a new rack, [Colocation in Frankfurt](/en/colocation/germany/frankfurt/) provides the space, and [Rack and Stack in Frankfurt](/en/rack-and-stack/germany/frankfurt/) covers installing and cabling the hardware once it arrives. For equipment that moves as part of a larger project, [Server Migration in Frankfurt](/en/server-migration/germany/frankfurt/) covers the relocation of individual systems. Technical work after the move is handled through [Smart Hands in Frankfurt](/en/smart-hands/germany/frankfurt/), and when the old site is being closed, [Data Center Decommissioning in Frankfurt](/en/data-center-decommissioning/germany/frankfurt/) covers removing and disposing of the retired hardware.