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Best Practices for Distributing Power Load Across Redundant PDUs

All - Looking for some recommendations or best practices for calculating power load and how to properly distrubute across redundant pdu's. I'm a newbie so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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AP7580 PDU Extender

Pardon my naivety but we at my organization are contracting for cage space in a data center and they are supplying 208/30 to the Cage, We already own some metered AP7830 PDU's that take 120/20 input. W...
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Dedicated cooling systems

Upto what capacity can I realy on the cooling available in the building/room? Dedicated cooling systems are necessary only when the room size to cooling required ratio exceeds a limit. Example, if I a...
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who used CableProject CAD from Expertsoft company? Should I buy it?

I need software for networking cable designed. I was proposed to buy Cableproject CAD. Everything which offers me very good. Price, easy to use but I doubt.I found from www.cableproject.net
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SmartUPS 2200 sufficient for new IT upgrade

We have a SUA2200 with serial expansion slot protecting two servers (glorified PC's on steroids) and one workstation. We are now contemplating getting the following equipment but are unsure if the curr...
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New Data Center (Where To Start)

Hi All, New to the forum, so be nice! We are in the process of building a new administrative office which will consist of a new data center. It does not look like the upper echelons are going to allow ...
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Ceiling Ideas

I am currently building about a 6k sq ft datacenter. The building is a single floor building, so my ceiling is currently the roof deck. I will be using the "slab" configutration with no raised floor. A...
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Calculate expected PDU per rack

Hello - I have been looking for some guidance on rack design with regard to power usage. I have been asked to design our rack layout in terms of equipment placement and power consumption for each PDU. ...
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Natural Gas vs Diesel Fuel Backup Generator for Data Centre

Opinons/experiences with natural gas vs diesel fuel backup genset for Data Centre. Which one is better?
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New White Paper:Improved Architecture for High Efficiency & HD Data Ce...

APC has released a new White Paper titled:An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High Density Data CentersAbstract: Data center power & cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,0...
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Smart UPS 3000 & 2200 daisy chained to Symmetra

My organization is upgrading our server room's backup power capablity, specifically we are migrating from rack mounted APC SmartUPS 3000s and 2200s to a Symmetra facility UPS. We have purchased PDUs to...
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