Posted: 2/16/2009 11:40:21 AM EDT
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I've got a cage in a datacenter in Minneapolis. Next week we are being upgraded from a 20amp circuit to a 30amp circuit. On the 20 amp, they provide you with a power strip. With the 30 amp circuit, they simply provide a plug and I have to provide the PDU.
For the PDU, I'm thinking of going with the APC AP7932. All the other PDU's I've seen either have a single 24 amp breaker (thus negating the point of getting a 30 amp circuit). My big question is, battery backup. Obviously the chances of the datacenter going down are near impossible, but it happened for ~3 hrs last year. The problem I'm seeing with the bigger UPS's is that they all require 208V input or more. The datacenter our cage is in only has 120v (to my knowledge). What are my other options there?? |
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You'll have an L5-30P plug most likely.
The APC SUA3000RM will take that plug and give you 20a and 15a receptacles for your devices. Two AP9562s into that will distro your load to your servers. Your data center may already have a UPS, you do not want to stack UPS. -JLM |
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No, we rent a cage in a datacenter; not doing an entire datacenter myself.
We looked at adding a second 20 amp circuit; that was more expensive than upgrading to a 30amp. Also, I want the SNMP support, remote reboot capability, and power monitoring that a more advanced PDU will provide. |