The Data Center Migration Timeline is directly influenced by the following factors:

• Transformation Objectives and In-flight Enterprise Initiatives
• Business, Technology and Applications Constraints driven move groups and available maintenance windows
• Miscellaneous vendors SLAs and time needed for the procurement, build and validation phases
• Organization’s maturity - availability of infrastructure (Network, Compute and Storage), applications and business data related to source environment
• Stake holders’ resource plan and skills & maturity level
• Swing infrastructure (Network, Compute and Storage) availability and migration tools capabilities
• Security and Compliance Needs
• Migration Methods Needed and Utilized:
  • Physical Moves (Lift-n-Shift)
  • Logical Moves (Server Image and Data over Wire)
  • Green Field (Build and Deploy)
• Environment Nature and Size:
  • Number of Physical Devices
  • Number of Operating System Instances
  • Number of Applications & Types
  • Total Storage
  • Number of Databases and Total Size
  • Number of File Shares and Total Size
  • Number of Network Zones and VLANs
  • Number of Firewalls and Load Balancers Rules
  • Number of Components between End User(s) and Server(s)
  • Number of Data Centers and WAN Sites
  • Number of Environments in SDLC
  • SDLC Types & Timelines

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