Moves, Adds, & Changes (MAC)
From relocating servers to upgrading cables, our team handles physical changes with speed and precision. We support ongoing infrastructure evolution — whether it’s one device or a full row migration. We follow documented procedures and can build SOPs for repeatability. ITSR Data manages the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure changes in your data center, ensuring every move, addition, and modification is planned, executed, and documented to minimize risk and downtime.
What We Do
- Project Planning & Scoping: Every MAC engagement begins with a detailed plan — including scope of work, timeline, resource requirements, risk assessment, and rollback procedures — ensuring all stakeholders are aligned before any physical work begins.
- Documented Procedures & SOPs: We develop and follow Standard Operating Procedures for every type of change, ensuring consistency and repeatability whether it’s performed once or hundreds of times across your environment.
- Server & Equipment Relocation: We safely decommission, disconnect, transport, and reinstall equipment — from individual devices to full cabinet migrations — with proper handling, labeling, and verification at every step.
- Row & Pod Migrations: For large-scale moves, we plan and execute multi-rack, multi-row migrations with phased cutover schedules that maintain service continuity throughout the transition.
- Zero-Downtime Approach: Where possible, we design migration plans that maintain service availability using parallel infrastructure, staged cutovers, and coordinated failover procedures to eliminate or minimize production impact.
- Cable Adds & Changes: We install new cabling, re-patch existing connections, and upgrade infrastructure — including copper-to-fiber transitions, bandwidth upgrades, and cross-connect provisioning.
- Infrastructure Evolution Support: As your environment grows and changes, we provide ongoing MAC support that adapts to your evolving architecture — scaling up, consolidating, or reconfiguring infrastructure as business needs change.
- Change Documentation & Closeout: Every completed change is documented with updated rack diagrams, cable schedules, and port maps. We provide closeout reports that confirm work completed, test results, and any follow-up items.
Why Choose ITSR
Physical changes in a live data center carry inherent risk — wrong cable pulled, wrong device powered down, wrong rack accessed. ITSR Data mitigates that risk through rigorous planning, documented procedures, and experienced technicians who understand the consequences of every action. We don’t rush through changes; we execute them methodically with verification checkpoints built into every step. Whether you’re migrating to new cabinets, adding capacity, or consolidating after a merger, our MAC team handles the physical work so your engineers can focus on the logical side. We’ve supported infrastructure transitions of every scale, from single-device swaps to full data center relocations.
Service Coverage
We provide moves, adds, and changes services across Northern Virginia including Ashburn, Reston, Tysons Corner, Sterling, Herndon, Crystal City, Manassas, and the greater DMV region. Based in Falls Church, VA, we’re just 20 minutes from Data Center Alley.