Re: Should we put the system i on a UPS for the entire room?

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

A natural gas generator? I didn't know they existed. Not much you need to
worry about there in terms of disasters.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Ed Griffin <egriffin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have all 25 servers and one of our 520 on a APC LX1600 then wired to a
> gas generator that we test quarterly.  We un-wired the 520 to the APC
> because we keep getting emergency shutdown do to self test and line
> conditioning events.  The servers are the same way.  We have 2.5 hours on
> battery and unlimited generator time or until we run out of natural gas.
> When we have an power outage our on call person is paged and dispatched.
> We have two sites like this.  We test this process every year just before
> spring and have not any issues.  Since we load test the generator annually
> for the past 2 years.
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> Thank You,
> Ed
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> Ed Griffin
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> We have two UPS's here. I inherited it all but our 810 is on one and
> everything else (2 Windows servers and all the network equipment, etc.)
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> on the other.
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> If your keep your 520 and network folks separate might make sense to keep
> it
> the way it is so if they are messing with their UPS or there is an issue
> with it, it doesn't impact the 520 and vice versa ?
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> Chuck
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Burns, Bryan
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> Subject: Should we put the system i on a UPS for the entire room?
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> Our network people are getting a quote on putting the server room on one
> UPS
> which will feed the entire circuit going into the server room.  This
> includes our IBM 520 which is currently connected to a Powerware 5125 UPS
> still under warranty.  The room will not have a generator.  From the
> iSeries
> side of things, I don't see any advantage to going to a UPS that will
> protect 20 other servers.
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> What precautions do the network guys need to take with respect to the IBM
> 520?  That is, are there any unique UPS requirements for a 520 server
> versus, let's say a Dell server?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Bryan
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