Project scope and site coordination
Set up the project, facilities, contacts, responsibilities and site-specific requirements.
Excel planner + PDF guide
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data center
decommissioning toolkit
Data center decommissioning toolkit resources from ITAMG give your team a working project file for retiring servers, storage and network equipment. ITAMG provides a blank 39-worksheet Excel planner, a 36-page PDF planning guide and a separate completed example, available together through the form below.
The Excel workbook includes 33 working registers for project scope, sites, equipment and media inventories, dependencies, vendors, removal waves, tasks, costs and evidence. Linked record IDs connect the work: which site an asset belongs to, who owns the next action, where a drive moved and which treatment or closeout records remain outstanding.
Instructions, legends and dropdown choices explain how to complete the planner. Use the PDF to work through the decommissioning decisions, then consult the fictional example for completed records across multiple sites. Save your project in the blank workbook and keep the example alongside it as a reference.
39 worksheets. One project file.
Includes 33 working registers for sites, assets, media, vendors and project delivery.
36-page PDF planning guide
Understand the decisions, approvals and records needed at each decommissioning stage.
Instructions and a completed example
Use legends, controlled choices and fictional entries to learn the workflow.
Your planning resources
Download the data center decommissioning planner
Start with the blank Excel workbook. Keep the PDF guide and fictional example alongside it when you need instructions or a completed record to follow.
Blank Excel decommissioning planner
39 worksheets, including 33 working registers, with linked IDs, instructions, legends and controlled choices.
36-page PDF planning guide
Work through equipment scoping, readiness, vendor coordination, removal, evidence and closeout.
Fictional completed workbook
Follow connected records across sites, equipment and media, including holds, failures and unresolved items.
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Inside the Excel planner
What the decommissioning workbook helps you manage
Use the registers that fit your scope. Linked IDs connect sites, equipment, media and project records, with dropdown choices for controlled categories and statuses.
Equipment and media inventories
Record servers, storage, network equipment and removable media, with locations, ownership and linked IDs.
Readiness and disposition decisions
Document dependencies, approvals, holds and planned equipment or media treatment routes.
Vendors, tasks and removal waves
Assign vendors, sequence work, track dates and manage issues, risks and change decisions.
Chain of custody and data treatment
Reconcile transfers, treatment attempts, results and unresolved media against supporting records.
Budget, evidence and closeout
Track costs and recovery, link supporting evidence and record reconciliation and final approvals.
Start your project
Set up your data center decommissioning plan
01
Read the workbook instructions
Review the workbook's start page, legends and input guidance. Keep a clean original and save a separate project copy.
02
Add sites, equipment and owners
Define the scope, sites, contacts and accountable owners. Add your asset and media records using the instructed IDs and dropdown choices.
03
Coordinate removal and closeout
Assign vendors and tasks, record decisions and keep custody, evidence and unresolved items current as each wave progresses.
Workbook questions
Decommissioning template and download questions
Are all workbook entries dropdowns?
Controlled categories and statuses use dropdown choices. Project-specific information such as IDs, names, dates, quantities and notes needs the appropriate typed value. The workbook includes instructions and legends to explain what each input requires.
How do I add equipment to the decommissioning inventory?
Enter equipment in the asset register and link each record to its site. Add the associated drives and other data-bearing media in the media register, using the workbook’s ID instructions. Follow the table-expansion guidance when adding rows so the dropdown choices and calculations carry into the new records.
Does submitting the form start a project?
The form provides access to planning resources. Execution scope, site requirements and service arrangements are discussed separately. Use the planning page to review the checklist, or contact ITAMG about decommissioning services.
Start with the planner
Download your data center decommissioning templates
Create a working project copy, review the instructions and build your equipment retirement plan.
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