Shawn L via NANOG wrote on 02/09/2020 12:15:
We once moved a 3u server 30 miles between data centers this way.
Plug redundant psu into a ups and 2 people carried it out and put
them in a vehicle.
hopefully none of these server moves that people have been talking about
involved spinning disks. If they did, kit damage is one of the likely
outcomes - you seriously do not want to bump active spindles:
www.google.com/search?q=disk+platter+damage&tbm=isch
SSDs are a different story. In that case it's just a bit odd as to why
you wouldn't want to power down a system to physically move it - in the
sense that if your service delivery model can't withstand periodic
maintenance and loss of availability of individual components,
rethinking the model might be productive.
Nick
