You are part of a technical team that has been assigned to d

You are part of a technical team that has been assigned to decommission a group of older servers and computers in a financial office and then install the new equipment over the weekend. All of the servers in the server racks have been powered down. Of the following, what are proper steps to take to remove these devices?

A. Unplug the servers from their power sources.

B. Remove the rack servers from their mountings and stack them in a pile.

C. Remove all the power and network cables and stack them in a pile.

D. Remove any hard drives from the servers and salvage them for your own business use.

Solution

A. After powering down the units, your next step is to disconnect any power cords and network cables from the servers as preparation for removing the servers from their rack mountings