Moving data center from India to US
Wow, looks challenging and it's indeed. So, we have finally decided to move our DR data center from India to US. The location I cannot disclose however its almost 50% of the original data center at Atlanta. The designing phase is over except for the data center power and cabling and I believe it happens given the short time frame of 45 days (don't laugh, it got extended by 6 months and I feel another 3 months more it deserves). There are few things which I don't know why it happens every time we try to do something big. 1. Specification keeps on changing, regarding the list of applications for which we are building our DR. 2. RPO and RTO is not decided and simply we are doing an infrastructure DR not true DR. There is no BCP. 3. We are trying new technology Cisco UCS vs discrete Dell servers and going for full virtualization at DR. We are simply doing too many things and rather experimenting new technologies at data center. 4. How the data will get replicated was decided po...