Server Migration in Zurich

Equinix ZH4 - Zurich stands on Josefstrasse in Zurich. A migration in this city usually means taking running equipment out of one position and bringing it back into service in another, whether that is a different rack, a different room or a different facility. Reboot Monkey treats that as a physical project with a defined start, a defined end and a named owner for every step in between.

Server migration, as Reboot Monkey defines it, is moving equipment between racks, rooms or facilities. It is separate from rack and stack, which is the installation of new hardware, and from decommissioning, which is the removal and disposal of retired hardware. Many projects combine these, for example moving live servers to a new location while retired units from the old one are taken out. Each part is scoped on its own so that the customer sees what is being moved, what is being installed and what is being removed.

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 is not a hosting company and does not own the data center, so a migration is planned around the operator's access arrangements rather than against them.

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

A migration request starts with the customer's description of what has to move and where it has to go. From that, Reboot Monkey agrees the scope: which servers and network devices are involved, how they are labelled and documented today, and what the target racks look like. The brief for the job then fixes who does what on the day.

Reboot Monkey can run the whole physical move or work alongside the customer's own team. Who disconnects, reconnects and tests the equipment is agreed per project. Some customers want the full handover, from powering down at the source to confirming the equipment is back in the new position. Others keep their own administrators on the logical side and use Reboot Monkey engineers for the hands-on work in the rack.

Where the move changes the network path, the connectivity side is covered as well. 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. The customer receives one account of the work instead of coordinating the operator, the carriers and a separate cabling contractor.

The scope of a typical project covers:

Reboot Monkey is a third-party datacenter services operator. 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. That position means a migration is not tied to one hardware brand or one facility, and the customer deals with a single supplier for the physical work and the network that goes with it.

For every customer site, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup. If the primary engineer is unavailable on the day of a move, the work does not stop to find someone new, because the backup already knows the site and the job.

As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations. For a company moving equipment from Zurich to another country, or consolidating several sites into one, the same supplier can handle both ends of the move under one set of arrangements.

Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job. A quote is based on the inventory, the number of positions involved and the agreed split of roles.

These terms apply in every facility in Zurich 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 into new racks often comes with a decision about where the equipment will sit afterwards. Customers planning a move into additional rack space can look at [Colocation in Zurich](/en/switzerland/zurich/colocation/) as part of the same project, so that space, connectivity and the physical move are planned together.

Related work that Reboot Monkey carries out alongside migrations includes rack and stack for new hardware that arrives with the move, remote hands and smart hands for follow-up tasks once the equipment is running in its new position, and data center decommissioning for the retired systems left at the source site. Hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC can be added after the move for the customer's servers and network equipment.