P.O. Box 82545 Lincoln, NE 68501-2545 ELECTRONIC SERVICE REQUESTED May 17, 2013 Volume 35 Number 10 www.processor.com Address Changes: (800) 733-3809 or Fax: (402) 479-2193 Advertising Sales: (800) 247-4880 or Fax: (402) 479-2104 Products, News & Information Data Centers Can Trust. Since 1979 Alternating Phase PDUs Make Load Balancing Simple Server Technology’s Patent-Pending Approach Balances Power On A Per-Outlet Basis Is your company deploying three-phase impact on the cumulative current draw so power? Although the technology is some- you can get a visual confirmation that loads what new to data centers, today’s higher- are balanced. Smart PDUs take that one step density facilities have greater numbers of further by letting you take that information servers and other equipment that demand on current draw, trend it, and see what’s greater amounts of power. happening over time. Implementing three-phase power has its PDUs with the alternating phase power share of challenges. Chief among them is the technology include color-coded outlets, need to balance each phase while accounting making it even easier for the installer to bal- for a mixture of devices. The risks are high. ance loads. When the load and current draw are balanced In addition to simplifying equipment correctly, your data center will run with setup and installation, using PDUs with the better efficiency and minimal heat issues. alternating phase power technology cleans Balanced incorrectly, you can end up with up the back of the rack. overloaded branches, popped circuit break- “Customers don’t need to think about ers, or, worse, popped upstream breakers tak- running the power cords to each branch ing out an entire rack or more. to balance the load. They can now run That’s not to mention the fact that, in the power cord to the closest correspond- all those efforts to balance power at each ing outlet,” he says. “Power cords can be branch, you can end up with a tangled mess shorter, improving airflow and allowing in the back of a rack as you work to run a for a cleaner look,” Hammond says. It also patchwork of cables and power cords to the makes it much simpler to put more equip- PDU. That mess of cables results in poor ment into a rack and reduces the chances of “When customers grasp the concept, cable management and impaired airflow. overloading a single branch thus opening a Server Technology developed its patent- breaker and taking down a branch. pending alternating phase power technol- they certainly see the advantages. See The Advantages ogy as a way to solve these challenges and others that its customers were running Any customer who has overloaded a Response to the technology has been pos- into when deploying three-phase power. itive, with some of the first installations in The new technology builds on Server the financial industry, Hammond says. In breaker because their phases were not Technology’s long history of PDU innova- these initial installations, the greatest advan- tion stretching from developing the first tage has been for companies with large intelligent PDU to the recent launching of balanced will appreciate it.” infrastructures that use third-party integrator its PDU Power Pivot. firms to pre-wire the cabinets. “The wiring of the power cables from the servers gets -Server Technology’s Steve Hammond Match Current Draw much more simplified, thus it is easier to Alternating phase power technology makes In most data centers, racks are filled correct phase to properly alternate the map out the cabling,” he says. it simpler to deploy three-phase power and with a mixture of appliances and servers power at each outlet,” he says. Overall, the technology has the poten- balance loads. Load balancing, or matching of various types and sizes. “If an installer The alternating phase power technolo- tial to simplify three-phase power instal- the current draw on each phase, is critical but can fit more appliances in a rack, then gy is currently available in metered and lation for companies of virtually any size, often taken for granted, says Steve Hammond, they’ll certainly go ahead and do that,” Smart 400V three-phase PDUs from Server in any industry. product manager at Server Technology. “Lots Hammond says. Technology. “This level of power is com- “When customers grasp the concept, they of customers are not doing it correctly,” he mon in new data centers that want to take certainly see the advantages,” Hammond Varies The Phases says, “which can pop a circuit breaker.” advantage of the high-density power pro- says. “Any customer who has overloaded a One of the main reasons is that equipment Alternating phase technology varies vided by 400V,” Hammond says. Future breaker because their phases were not bal- installers don’t always really understand the three incoming phases on a per-outlet plans include building the technology into anced will appreciate it.” P three-phase power technology and potential basis instead of a per-branch basis. It does the company’s 208V three-phase PDUs. problems, Hammond says. “The principles so through the use of a multilayer circuit Server Technology metered PDUs of three-phase power are not always well board, Hammond says. Each phase is sand- include local LED input current monitor- understood by the installer, whose only task wiched between a board. “When we build ing so you can see the amps being drawn by is to power up the equipment being installed the product, we make sure that the pins network devices. 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