Server Migration · Canada
Server Migration Services in Vancouver
Reboot Monkey moves servers and network equipment between racks, rooms or facilities in Vancouver. Reboot Monkey engineers work in the customer's facility, either running the whole physical move or working alongside the customer's own team, with who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment agreed per project.
In Vancouver
- Server Migration
- Data Center Decommissioning
- Data Center Migration
- Rack and Stack
- Remote Hands
- Colocationon request
- Smart Handson request
- ITADon request
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Plan your server migration in Vancouver
Tell Reboot Monkey what is moving and where it is going, and receive a quote for the physical move.
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Server 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 CTO or IT Director, that is the context in which a move of equipment into, out of or within this city is planned.
Harbour Centre Vancouver stands on West Hastings St in Vancouver. The building belongs to its operator, which owns and runs it, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules.
Server migration, in Reboot Monkey's terms, means moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. A migration project starts with a conversation about what is moving, where it is going and who on the customer side takes part. From there the work is scoped and quoted. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. The scope of each project is written down before work begins, so procurement has a defined job to approve rather than an open-ended engagement.
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 Server Migration Services
Reboot Monkey sells third-party datacenter services inside data centres that other companies own and run. It is not a hosting company and does not own any facility. A migration in Vancouver is therefore a physical operation carried out in someone else's building, planned around that operator's rules.
The division of labour is set per project. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move, or it can work alongside the customer's own team. In either case the project plan states who disconnects the equipment, who reconnects it and who tests it afterwards. A customer with a strong in-house infrastructure team may keep the testing and the configuration work, while a customer with no staff near Vancouver may hand over the entire move.
A migration usually touches more than the servers themselves. The services around it include:
- Rack and stack: installing, mounting and cabling new hardware at the destination.
- Smart hands: technical work that needs diagnostic judgement and configuration knowledge, for example when a migrated system does not come up as expected.
- Remote hands: physical tasks carried out on the customer's instruction, such as reboots, cable checks and visual checks.
- Connectivity: Reboot Monkey 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.
- Data center decommissioning and IT asset disposition (ITAD): removing and disposing of the retired hardware once the move is complete.
Why Reboot Monkey
A migration is judged on how predictable it is for the people who have to approve it and live with the result. Several parts of how Reboot Monkey works address that directly.
First, continuity on site. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so the project does not depend on a single person being available on the day.
Second, a single point of responsibility for the physical side. Because Reboot Monkey sells the rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network and hardware as well as the services that install and support them, the move of equipment and the ordering of the circuits that serve it can be planned together rather than split between several suppliers.
Third, reach beyond one city. As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. For a company relocating equipment from Vancouver to another region, or consolidating several sites into one, the same operator can be engaged at both ends of the move.
After the move, hardware monitoring is available for the customer's servers and network equipment, carried out by the Reboot Monkey NOC. This lets the customer keep watching the migrated systems without building a separate monitoring arrangement for the new location.
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 server migration cover in Vancouver?
Server migration covers moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities in Vancouver. 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. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.
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 server 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 server migration work is scheduled under the operator's rules.
Plan your server migration in Vancouver
Tell Reboot Monkey what is moving and where it is going, and receive a quote for the physical move.