RE: when a ups doesn't help

We have duel power supplies in  each of our I5s and windows servers.  One 
feed from  {very large UPS <-> generator <-> street } and the other feed 
from {PDU <-> street}.  We are a utility company and still have pole hits.
<g>

Ed Griffin
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> We have only a single large UPS for the entire computer room, 
> so a problem with it would bring down everything.  It'd be 
> nice to take the redundancy all the way and have two large 
> UPS.  Then you could have each power supply plugged into a 
> separate power strip and each power strip plugged into a 
> separate UPS.  Heck take it a step further and have two 
> separate generators for each UPS ;-)

And 2 separate utility companies!

<g>