Hello,
I work in an office of about 100/150, we have 15/20 servers we manage in the server room, with about 5 various APC (and one triplite) products acting as UPSes for the servers.
The APC products we have now are of the Smart-UPS product line, 3 1500's and a 1400 I believe.
The servers are mostly the Dell PowerEdge 2U 2650/2850 Series, there are a few older boxes, too.
We want to buy a new UPS for the server room, and move the 3 1500's to our switch closets. The ultimate goal for the UPS in the server room is to provide enough time (a half hour to an hour) to get someone in here to shut down the servers gracefully in event of an emergency. We do not have any systems that absolutely need to stay up 24/7. I wouldn't mind having a few hours on the switch closets; but, I honestly don't know what kinda lifetime the 1500's will offer 4 or more switches.
Now, I have recently begun working here. And, I don't know that the current setup would provide the half hour or more we're looking for (we recently did a test, and systems survived about 15 minutes, but I think one UPS was about done).
I'm looking at the APC Smart-UPS XL line. I don't know if this is too much, or too little. I would like to go for a 2200VA or 3000VA with an additional battery unit. Adding more than one battery unit gets quite expensive and big, however. Rack mountable.
I work in an office of about 100/150, we have 15/20 servers we manage in the server room, with about 5 various APC (and one triplite) products acting as UPSes for the servers.
The APC products we have now are of the Smart-UPS product line, 3 1500's and a 1400 I believe.
The servers are mostly the Dell PowerEdge 2U 2650/2850 Series, there are a few older boxes, too.
We want to buy a new UPS for the server room, and move the 3 1500's to our switch closets. The ultimate goal for the UPS in the server room is to provide enough time (a half hour to an hour) to get someone in here to shut down the servers gracefully in event of an emergency. We do not have any systems that absolutely need to stay up 24/7. I wouldn't mind having a few hours on the switch closets; but, I honestly don't know what kinda lifetime the 1500's will offer 4 or more switches.
Now, I have recently begun working here. And, I don't know that the current setup would provide the half hour or more we're looking for (we recently did a test, and systems survived about 15 minutes, but I think one UPS was about done).
I'm looking at the APC Smart-UPS XL line. I don't know if this is too much, or too little. I would like to go for a 2200VA or 3000VA with an additional battery unit. Adding more than one battery unit gets quite expensive and big, however. Rack mountable.