[164007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PDU recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Sun Jun 23 12:40:45 2013
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZbD725Kwmh7ZN0Q8oeZAVo=m4N=GJmeMkv5Ns=c4YJ5Fw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:40:24 -0700
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
No, I only use APC anymore for PDUs. It's the others I've dealt with
I don't like. There's quite a few I've never used but after the
painfully expensive experiences I've had with Tripp-Lite, Bay tech,
MGE (though I think they're part of Schneider or APC now), Liebert
(which at the time looked suspiciously the same as the Tripp-Lite's
but with a bigger price tag), and a couple others I'm certainly
forgetting.
I'd heard there were some bad batches that were DOA from APC, but
haven't personally experienced any myself. I've had a couple
management cards in Symmetra LXes fail, and that same Symmetra chassis
had a power/inverter/charger module fail around the same time.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Michael, does that mean you do not employ PDUs in your network?
> I.e., found a UPS with sufficient number of outlets in the back. With
> that in mind, could you make a recommendation for such a UPS-direct
> for a VM environment.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Nick.
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