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Data Center Decommissioning Project Plan

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Server Decommission Checklist

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Step One:  Identify and record server to be decommissioned. Locate it in the data center. Schedule it for decommissioning Step Two:  Identify and retain all software licenses associated with the server. Step Three:  Schedule the cancellation of any vendor maintenance contracts associated with the server or software. Step Four:  Backup and save any necessary data. Step Five:  Disconnect server from the network. Remove from ACLs, subnets, and firewalls. Step Six:  Turn the box of that’s being decommissioned. Step Seven:  Remove the server from the rack for physical destruction or data erasure sanitization with secure, certified, overwrite of all data Step Eight:  Erase the disks in the server using an approved data sanitization method. Data erasure ensures that the data is unrecoverable and is a more environmentally-friendly option.
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