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Questions tagged [power-distribution-unit]

Questions related to power distribution units (PDU) or mains distribution unit (MDU) which are devices fitted with multiple outputs designed to distribute electric power, especially to racks of computers and networking equipment located within a data center.

A power distribution unit (PDU) or mains distribution unit (MDU) is a device fitted with multiple outputs designed to distribute electric power, especially to racks of computers and networking equipment located within a data center.

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APC switched PDU rack, lost state after reboot or power loss

I have the following: We have a few APC 7920 PDU's Using POWER IQ to control the PDS's via SNMP 1/2 Using also Mobile Power IQ to control the PDU if need via iPad/iPhone I am in the process of testing a few scenarios. One which has be stumped me…
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Running IBM servers at both 110v and 220v at the same time for a few seconds for power migration?

In our data center we are going to be moving all of our dual power supplied IBM servers (auto sensing 110/220) from an outdated 110 system of dumb power strips to an updated in rack 0u 220 monitored PDUs. In order to do this we will either need to…
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Switching from 120v to 208v power

We are going to switch from 20 amp 120 volt to 20 amp 208 volt circuits in our colocation facility. I am new to dealing with anything other than standard 120v power, so I am unsure of some intricacies of this change. We purchased APC AP7941 PDUs…
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APC - PDU web-interface demo

Where can i find a demo of the web-interface for Managed PDU's from APC (i'm interested in geting a glimpse at the features) ? Mike.
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Lowering power circuit at data-center, please help clarify what PDU I need

I have the following question: We have a rack at a datacenter with a 208V/60 amp circuit coming into a 208V/60 AMP PDU and I was wondering if we lower the circuit to let say 208V/30 amp or 120/30 amp do I need to change the PDU to a 208V/30 or…
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How best to monitor power draw on a "dumb" PDU

I'm working on an initiative to replace some PDUs in my company's datacenter with Smart PDUs, however it will be a few weeks before the new units are in. In the meantime, we've got to rack two new appliances and we're slightly concerned about the…
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Switching APC rack PDU via SNMP

How can I switch the outlets of an APC Rack PDU (AP7920) via SNMP (Linux SNMP command tools like snmpget/snmpset) ? I can't find anything about it. I was able to walk it via: snmpwalk -v3 -a MD5 -A xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -u switch -x DES -X xxxxxxxxxxxxxx…
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How Do I Reset a Tripp Lite PDU

I am working on reselling a tripp lite PDU for my company, and I need to know how to reset it to default factory settings. In other threads it says to push the reset pin, however there is no pinhole on the unit to push. Please if anybody has any…
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