Data Center Retirement

Definition

Data center retirement is the retirement subactivity consisting of the cohesive collection of all tasks that are primarily performed to retire a data center from service.

Goals

The typical goals of data center retirement are to:

• Take the data center out of service.

Objectives

The typical objectives of data center retirement are to:

• Cease data center usage in an orderly manner.
• Retire any associated documentation.

Examples

Typical examples of the data center retirement activity include:

• Retire a single data center.
• Retire multiple related data centers.

Preconditions

Data center retirement typically may begin when the following conditions hold:

• A data center has been selected for retirement.
• The retirement team is initially staffed and adequately trained in the relevant retirement tasks.

Completion Criteria

Data center retirement is typically complete when the following conditions hold:

• The data center is no longer in use.
• The associated documentation has been retired (e.g., archived or properly disposed of).
• The associated components have been retired (e.g., archived, transferred to other applications, or sold).

Tasks

Data center retirement typically involves the following teams performing the following retirement tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Retirement Team:
  • Retirement Planning
  • Retirement Notification
  • Operations Termination
  • Component Archival
  • Component Disposal
  • Documentation Archival
  • Documentation Disposal

Environments

Data center retirement is typically performed using the following environment(s) and associated tools:

• Production Environment:
  • Documentation Tools
  • Configuration Management Tools

Work Products

Data center retirement typically results in the production of the following work products:

• Data Center Retirement Plan
• Data Center Retirement Notification

Phases

Data center retirement tasks are typically performed during the following phases:

• Business Strategy: Not Applicable
• Business Optimization: Completed
• Initiation: Not Applicable
• Construction: Not Applicable
• Delivery: Not Applicable
• Usage: Not Applicable
• Retirement: Completed

Guidelines

• TBD