Server Migration in Lyon

France-IX has an exchange point in Lyon, with multiple points of presence in the city, and Lyon is also the second-largest student city in France. For an IT team, the practical question is how servers and network equipment get from one rack, room or facility to another without losing track of a single cable or asset. ETIX Lyon #1 stands on Boulevard du Parc d Artillerie in Lyon.

Server migration is the movement of equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. It starts with a scoping conversation about what is moving, where it is moving to and who on your side is involved. From that conversation the project plan assigns each step to a named party: who powers down and disconnects the equipment, who transports it, who racks and recables it at the destination, and who tests it before it goes back into service. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator, so the work is done inside data centres that other companies own and run, and the plan is written around the site rules of both the origin and the destination.

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.

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

A migration is rarely one task. It is a sequence of physical jobs, and each one maps to a defined service. Reboot Monkey keeps the definitions consistent so that your change records and our work orders describe the same thing.

The physical move itself is server migration: relocating equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. At the destination, new or relocated hardware is mounted and cabled, which is rack and stack. If a device needs diagnostic judgement or configuration knowledge during the move, that is smart hands work. If you only need a reboot, a cable check, a component swap or a visual check carried out on your instruction, that is remote hands.

Connectivity is part of the same plan. 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 your rack. Ordering circuits early matters, because the new rack needs its connectivity in place when the equipment arrives.

Reboot Monkey is not a hosting company and does not own datacenters. It sells rack space, IP transit, leased IP addresses, network, data-centre hardware and the services that deliver, install and support them, inside data centres that other companies own and run. For a migration this means the move is planned by an operator that has no interest in keeping your equipment in a particular building.

As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. That matters for a Lyon project when the move is one leg of a larger programme, for example equipment leaving another country for a rack in Lyon, because the same operator can plan both ends of the move.

A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so the work does not depend on one person being available on the day. Once the equipment is running, the Reboot Monkey NOC can monitor your servers and network equipment as hardware monitoring, which gives the new location a monitored baseline from its first day.

Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. Send the list of equipment, the origin and the destination, and Reboot Monkey will scope the move with you.

These terms apply in every facility in Lyon 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.

A server migration in Lyon often sits next to a decision about where the equipment should live. If the destination is a new rack or cage rather than an existing one, you can plan the space together with the move through Colocation in Lyon, so rack space, connectivity and the physical move are handled in one project. Other services in the same flow include rack and stack for new hardware, data center decommissioning for the site you are leaving, and IT asset disposition for equipment that will not make the journey.