Configuration Services

The Configuration Centre, has been in operation for over 10 years, and is adjacent to our main warehouse, the Swindon Logistics Centre, and is approximately 5,000 sq. ft.
It has been designed to offer a range of customised services from server rollouts to complex infrastructure projects involving datacentre clusters and storage networks.
 
 
Why pre-configure your equipment?
Minimise DOA issues, ensuring your resources are not tied-up waiting for system issues to be fixed before solution implementation.
Focus on implementation of the overall solution rather than integration and testing of systems.

Add extra capacity at times when resources are stretched or unavailable and extra skills where there is a gap.
 
 
The Configuration Centre builds your solution in our state-of-the-art, ISO 9001:2000 certified; electrostatic discharge (ESD) controlled department.
Hardware.com three-step quality control process ensures fast, accurate deployment including QC checklists, photo-image checking and technical sign off.
 
 
Example of a typical Cisco Configuration
Cisco 6500 chassis-based switch configuration:
  • Load customer-preferred IOS.
  • Pre-install all line cards, power on and test.
  • Install memory upgrades.
  • Verify supervisor module.
  • If required pre-load customer configuration.
  • Final check, inventory and test log.
 
 
Hardware Configuration, Software upgrades and Installation:
Desktops, servers, routers, switches, memory, hard drives, network cards, wireless cards, video cards and other peripherals;
  • Server hardware build
  • Standard O/S and business software load
  • Bespoke software setup or image deployment
  • Firmware installation
  • Blade hardware build and enclosure integration
  • Rack integration (i.e. PSUs, server install, KVMs, etc)
  • HP EVA integration
  • Project staging and rollout
  • Asset tagging
 
 
Case Study
Order for over 500 CISCO877-K9</> all needing DRAM, FLASH and IOS upgrades
  • Agreed on time scales and roll out quantities.
  • Completed 50 per day, all test logs recorded and checked.
  • These were stored in the warehouse whilst still being hard allocated to the sales order.
  • Customer then called off weekly until deal was complete.
  • Customer specified that each router have a label identifying them in their own unique ‘system’ for their goods in department to easily handle them when they arrived.
  • Customer also ordered a couple of extra cables, which we put inside each of the boxes for them.
  • Customer was very satisfied
 
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