LATEST INTELLIGENCE
IMPROVING DATA CENTER RELIABILITY AND EFFICIENCY BY SOLVING POWER QUALITY PAIN POINTS
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eExecutive summary
Electrical power is the lifeblood of the data center . A stable source of clean power must be present for any data center to operate .
But the very equipment that runs in the data center is often the cause of power quality problems experienced throughout that data center . Fans , power supplies , rectifiers , transformers , pumps , and lighting ballasts can distort the available power waveform .
The resulting sags , transients , and harmonics may make the infrastructure unreliable and inefficient .
As a specialist and innovator in the data center power business , Legrand has taken a giant leap forward in the functionality of our power distribution units by integrating new continuous power quality monitoring capabilities . This paper explains why measuring total harmonic distortion ( THD ) is essential to modern data centers and how having circuit breaker trip forensics available at the rack PDU makes sense to address several data center power pain points .
Data center power pain points
1 . Access to granular data on power consumption and power quality
2 . Knowing when hidden power quality issues are leading to other problems
3 . Determining outlet-level conditions when working in the back of the rack 4 . Identifying stranded power capacity 5 . Support for a wide variety of DCIM tools through
Redfish API and SNMP
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