Cooling for hot air containment system

[BillP]

We are setting up an eight rack HACS and we are looking at using the InRow RP DX Air Cooled system. Our eight racks will pull about 55-60kW total and we are setting up a redundant power system with A-B feeds into these racks through two PDUs and a UPS. I understand that these in row units should NOT be powered by the same systems that will power the data equipment. I’m looking for the best practices to design the system. Should the in row cooling units be hard wired from utility power and a generator for redundancy? The APC design portal does not allow you to power the cooling units and the racks from the same source.

[BillP · Accepted solution]

from an APC stand point, we cant really comment on best design practices via the forum. if you have an APC sales person, you could contact them which i believe can contact a member of the configuration team to better assist you. or perhaps some other users on the forum can comment.