Local time zones and follow the sun migration constraints

Care should be taken when performing migrations across multiple time zones to prevent any additional downtime impact than is necessary. Take into account the local times of the data centers you are migrating servers into and make sure that the migration takes place during periods of low usage in those local times. If you are working in Europe performing migrations in Asia, make sure that you are not impacting Asian operations in the middle of their production hours. All time zone constraints should be identified and managed as part of your migration plan.

A common support model for not only cloud computing, but also all information technology disciplines is the follow the sun support model. This is where a support operation is active in the part of the world that is traditionally open for business. For example, a global operation will have multiple world wide support centers that open and cloud based on the time of day. A site...