Modern blade servers often use dual or triple power supplies, meaning that a single rack of equipment can easily produce dozens of power cords to manage-and an appetite for 20 kW or more of reliable power.
Traditional power strips are just not up to the task.
This white paper considers ten steps you can take to design power distribution infrastructure that can provide the reliability and safety blade servers demand. Considering issues such as the amount of power required, the needs of ancillary equipment, load balancing and planning for future deployments, the white paper introduces Eaton's Powerware enclosure-based power distribution units (ePDUs) and explains how they streamline the power architecture and support rapidly escalating blade server.
The unified power architecture has fewer cables to manage, fewer distribution points to monitor, and greater flexibility for IT personnel to make changes without an electrician. With integrated, compatible elements, you create a power infrastructure that is as resilient, flexible and adaptable as the data center needs to be.
