[arin-discuss] Moving Data Centers - new thread

[Rick Ewart]

All -

Thanks for the feedback. When I saw the thread this morning it made me
think about my own move and figured it was a constructive topic. Glad to
see I was thinking correctly. 

Jim - would love to do a P2P and originally started in that direction. I
wanted to do a gig P2P connection and actually just vMotion stuff as I
thought that would be kinda slick. But then I got the price tag. LOL. I
will likely have to do a VPN tunnel if I go that route and perhaps ask a
provider to turn up the speeds temporarily.

Matt - I like the GRE tunnel solution. Joseph - thanks for expanding on
it. It actually seems like a very viable way to do it that I hadn't
thought of.

For sake of completion of people who might find this thread in the future,
I had a guy contact me off-list about doing an "Ethernet over IP" bridge
with inexpensive Mikrotik routers. Sorta along the lines of Matt's
recommendation (and Joseph's second).
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/EoIP

Daniel - it's a pretty varied combo of stuff actually. Some physical, some
virtual, some both. Data, voice, even some private MPLS T1s. Its quite the
project actually - lot of moving parts with a lot of clients and vendors.
My thoughts are to lay them all out, assign criticality indexes to them,
determine inter-dependencies and then start to sort and figure out what
can move electronically and what needs to move physically and then start
to whittle it down into a real plan. Its definitely not all going in one
shot - particularly the ones with private lines. 

Honestly I think the voice side of things is  going to be the trickiest
part in terms of timing because of the need to keep services active for
E911 and the like. The GRE solution might not be "doable" for that because
of added latency it would cause. But I think I have that worked out
already too with the use of virtual SBCs and a bit of "switcheroo". 

Have a great weekend.
Rick