It’s 3:13 in the morning and you’re awakened from a pleasant slumber by the beeping, whirring sound of your cell phone. It’s the data center. Notifying you that you’ve lost grid power and your UPS has gone on battery back-up.
While you stand there in your terry robe and fuzzy bunny slippers contemplating crawling back into your nice warm bed, time is ticking away for critical devices before they lose power completely.
As you throw on a wrinkled pair of jeans and yesterday’s t-shirt you’re calculating the time in your head. You know your UPS will last for 37 minutes on the current draw from your devices. You know it’s at least a 10 minute drive to the data center, 17 minutes total by the time you step foot inside.
You know this, because you’ve done all this before.
That gives you right around 20 minutes to safely shed all of your non-critical devices to expand the run-time of your UPS.
With very little traffic on the road at this hour your mind begins to wander. You wonder why the power dropped off this time. You picture a squirrel playing a tragic game of hop-scotch in a transformer field as you’re tires screech to a halt in the parking lot.
You check your watch as you flip on the lights in the data center. Twenty minutes remaining. You grab your keys and head for the cabinets…
WAIT!
What if this entire scenario never had to happen? What if you could expand the run time of your UPS by shedding non-critical devices while you sleep? Sound like a sweet dream?
With our cabinet power distribution units and smart load shedding feature, your CDU can communicate with your UPS. It will know when the UPS switches to battery, and with a little bit of configuration it can shed non-critical devices. You can also couple that with our remote shutdown agent, which will initiate a shutdown command to your servers before removing power.
All of which could save you hours of sleep and keep your systems running, while the public works electrician cleans up fried squirrel at 3:30 in the morning.
To find out more information, read our white paper “Smart Load Shedding Ensures Uptime”.
If you want to learn more about how to avoid this scenario and construct a kick butt data center, see Fred Mapp's free whitepaper on building vs outsourcing your data center. http://www.iodatacenters.com/build-vs-outsource-whitepaper.htm
Posted by: DataGuy35 | August 27, 2007 at 09:50 PM