Best Practices articles

IT asset logistics from receiving dock to ITAD, and who owns each handoff.

Nick Herrera

The fields an IT asset inventory needs, with an example value for each.

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Anti-static packing done right: which bag, which foam, and what needs neither.

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When servers need climate controlled transportation, and what to ask for.

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The office move ends when the network works, not when the desks arrive.

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A lessons-learned document nobody acts on is just a list of excuses.

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Rollback is easy on paper and hard once the servers are on a truck.

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A planned outage nobody was told about is an unplanned outage.

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Most move-day failures were decided ninety days earlier.

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Standard freight delivers to a dock. Everything after that is scope.

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Running hardware past warranty is a decision, even when nobody makes it.

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The three-year refresh is an accounting convention, not an engineering one.

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Discovery tools find what is powered on. They miss what matters most.

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An asset tag that falls off in transit takes the audit trail with it.

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The freight quote is the smallest line item in a relocation budget.

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Hardware arrives at the new site. Its support coverage often does not.

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Most transit damage happens to equipment that was packed by hand, badly.

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Vague scope produces bids you cannot compare and change orders you cannot refuse

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One authoritative record, or six spreadsheets that disagree with each other.

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How to plan a storage array move: shutdown order, drives, weight, fabric.

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Deracking is the easy part. Everything that makes it safe happens earlier.

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HCI ties compute and storage to the same nodes. Move order is not cosmetic.

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Coverage is easy. Capacity, roaming, and interference are the hard parts.

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Fiber fails quietly. The damage shows up as degraded links, not dead ones.

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Powering on is not the same as working. What to test before releasing.

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How your IT team maps application dependencies and turns them into move groups.

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How decisions, communication, and escalation actually work during execution.

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Labeling and port mapping practices that hold up when everything is unplugged.

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How to move a tape library and its media without damaging robotics or tapes.

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The site survey is where migration risk is found or missed entirely.

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The five phases of the IT asset lifecycle and what each one should record.

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How to decide whether an aging server should be retired or redeployed.

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How to keep an unbroken custody record for every asset in a data center move.

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How to keep IT asset records accurate from the receiving dock to disposition.

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How to retire IT assets securely and sustainably: destruction, reuse, recycling.

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How to document every handoff when data-bearing IT equipment leaves your site.

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When to refresh enterprise servers and how to plan the swap and retirement.

Nick Herrera