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UPS/power recommendations
I seem to be getting hit up with a lot of specific power-related questions this week, and want to get a better handle on things...
Let's say we're implementing a Cisco 6509 chassis with dual 6000w power supplies. Running a sample configuration through the Cisco Power Calculator, we get the following results:
Total Output Power: 2839 Watts
Total Typical Output Power: 2271 Watts
Two questions:
1) what would you recommendation for a UPS solution in the case of this dual-power supply chassis? (One/power supply for UPS redundancy? If so, would you recommend UPS’s that could handle the full 6000w of their connected power supply (for future expansion, even though this output indicates the current total output power is < 3000W?)
2) if the customer wanted to run the chassis off a single racked UPS, what would you suggest as a minimum to support the environment? Obviously a chassis with dual 6000w supplies will not draw 12kW throughout the day, and we know that there is load-sharing between the power supplies as well, so how would you recommend sizing a UPS? Do they demand more power during startup, for instance, until the chassis/line cards are fully booted? (I have a customer asking for “bare minimum” answers to these types of questions.) If I'm focused on the 2839W number, and they implemented a 4000W UPS to handle it, I wouldn't want to find out that when the chassis is powered up, it goes through some sort of check to verify that both power supplies can draw full power concurrently.
Thanks in advance!
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Let's say we're implementing a Cisco 6509 chassis with dual 6000w power supplies. Running a sample configuration through the Cisco Power Calculator, we get the following results:
Total Output Power: 2839 Watts
Total Typical Output Power: 2271 Watts
Two questions:
1) what would you recommendation for a UPS solution in the case of this dual-power supply chassis? (One/power supply for UPS redundancy? If so, would you recommend UPS’s that could handle the full 6000w of their connected power supply (for future expansion, even though this output indicates the current total output power is < 3000W?)
2) if the customer wanted to run the chassis off a single racked UPS, what would you suggest as a minimum to support the environment? Obviously a chassis with dual 6000w supplies will not draw 12kW throughout the day, and we know that there is load-sharing between the power supplies as well, so how would you recommend sizing a UPS? Do they demand more power during startup, for instance, until the chassis/line cards are fully booted? (I have a customer asking for “bare minimum” answers to these types of questions.) If I'm focused on the 2839W number, and they implemented a 4000W UPS to handle it, I wouldn't want to find out that when the chassis is powered up, it goes through some sort of check to verify that both power supplies can draw full power concurrently.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks!