Server Migration in Marseille

In 2019 the port of Marseille-Fos announced new subsea cable landing infrastructure, with a first phase able to accommodate up to six cables. Marseille is described as a data hub for Europe and the Mediterranean region, with subsea cables linking it directly to the Middle East and many locations across Africa. That is why infrastructure teams place and relocate equipment here, and why a move into, out of or within the city needs careful physical planning. dc2scale MRS1 (Marseille datacenter) stands on rue Jacques Reattu in Marseille. Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator, not a hosting company and not a datacenter owner, so a migration is carried out inside a building that another company owns and runs. Planning a move therefore starts with the operator's requirements for access, delivery and equipment handling, which we fold into the project plan before any hardware is touched.

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

Server migration, as Reboot Monkey defines it, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. A job in Marseille can be a move from one rack to another, a move between halls, or a transfer between two facilities. Each project is scoped around the equipment, the source and the destination, and how much of the work your own staff want to keep.

The division of labour is flexible. Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move, or work alongside your own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project, so your engineers can keep control of the logical side while ours handle the hands-on work in the room.

Reboot Monkey sells the network for the rack as well as the labour to move into it. When a migration needs new connectivity at the destination, the cross connects and carrier circuits are ordered from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in your rack. One supplier can therefore cover the equipment move and the connectivity it depends on, which keeps the cutover plan in one place. A second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup for every customer site, so a project does not depend on a single person being available on the day. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. Send the equipment list, the source and destination, and your preferred split of responsibilities, and the quote follows from those details.

These terms apply in every facility in Marseille 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 migration often runs alongside other work in the same building. If the destination rack space is not yet arranged, you can review Colocation in Marseille before the move date is fixed. New hardware arriving with the move can be installed through rack and stack, and retired hardware left behind can go to data center decommissioning or IT asset disposition. After the move, hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers your servers and network equipment, and remote hands and smart hands cover day-to-day physical tasks and technical work that needs diagnostic judgement.