Belkin RACKMOUNT WHITE PAPER User Manual

OmniGuard

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UPS Guide

Overview of Belkin OmniGuard UPS

•Why buy Belkin OmniGuard management products?

•Why do you need the protection of the Belkin UPS?

•Protecting enterprise environments with Belkin UPSes

• Ease of serviceability with hot swappable batteries

•True sine wave output & line-interactive voltage regulation

•High-line (208V) versus low-line (120V)—what’s best for your customer?

• Which Belkin UPS is right for you?

• UPS front-panel configuration

• UPS rear-panel configuration

•Worldwide power requirements

• Belkin UPS options

•Belkin Management Software

•Key benefits

• Belkin UPS Specifications with Battery Run-Time Charts

Why buy Belkin OmniGuard management products?

With California’s power problems continuing and experts predicting that similar issues will soon plague every major metropolitan city in the country, complete power protection for computers is more critical than ever. Belkin has developed a full range of power management products. The OmniGuard Series UPSes protect and manage computer systems ranging from individual workstations to distributed enterprises. Belkin offers a wide range of uninterruptible power systems (UPSes) from 1100VA to 3200VA in Rack or Wall Mount, Tower and Desktop form factors for space-constrained, business-critical applications. The bundled power management software continuously manages and monitors Belkin UPSes.

Advanced features

With its advanced features and conveniently accessible design, the Belkin Rackmount UPS provides complete protection for servers, storage, networking, KVM, and other enterprise devices from damaging power fluctuations. The Belkin UPS also allows end users to monitor, control, and shut down servers remotely via Internet Protocol. (see Belkin UPS options)

Belkin quality

Having built its reputation on providing the highest-quality products, the Belkin hardware qualification process is the toughest in the industry. Extensive evaluation, testing, and product improvement guarantee the highest level of system protection, electrical performance, product construction, and compatibility.

Why do you need the protection of the Belkin UPS?

These key points of information will help you realize the importance of having the right power protection in place:

The amount of power required to push a single byte of information across the World Wide Web drops by half every 18 months, but the number of bytes traveling the Web doubles every 12 months.

A data center uses as much electricity in one day as 12 typical houses use in a year. The average cost of downtime across all server types in the industry, for each minute:

$108,000 in lost brokerage operations

$ 43,000 in lost credit card operations

$ 11,500 in lost airline reservation operations

$ 16,200 in lost telephone ticket sales operations

50% of U.S. corporations rate their Internet downtime costs at more than $10,000 per hour

9% of U.S. corporations rate their Internet downtime costs at more than $50,000 per hour

In some data centers, air conditioning consumes 40 percent of the total power. Keeping all of this equipment running smoothly is a daunting technical and logistical task. For a major Internet site, even a tiny glitch in the power causes unacceptable disruption of operating efficiency.

An unprotected microprocessor malfunctions if power is interrupted for even a single AC cycle—1/60th of a second. The average reliability of power “at the plug,” however, is not nearly this reliable, so an additional combination of technologies—some applied to the grid, others on the customer premises—will be required to prevent malfunction of computers and other microprocessor-based equipment.

A split-second deviation in the voltage of the electricity serving a fabrication plant can crash a sensitive component, causing downtime, missed deliveries, and lost product—interruptions that can cost the (semiconductor) industry as much as $2 million per day.

It is estimated that the overall impact of power-related problems can cost U.S. companies more than $26 billion per year.

In just five years, the electricity consumed by the computer and networking systems that power e-commerce has risen from a tiny fraction of the overall electricity pool to nearly 13 percent, according to RDI. That could rise to as much as 25 percent by 2010.

Power problems are devastating in modern times: the unstable power supply that causes lockup (crash) of computers, corruption of hardware, destruction of motherboards, and the loss of data, etc. are concerns of administrators and users. The main function of the UPS is to stabilize the power supply and provide continuous power supply to electrical/network devices via the backup battery when a power failure occurs. The purpose of this is to permit users to work through brief power shortages or provide sufficient time for users to start up the electric generator or perform a safe shutdown in an event of extended power failure. The UPS is not designed to function only when power failure occurs: it is designed to restrain voltage surges, spikes, sags, blackouts, and electrical noise.

Protecting enterprise environments with Belkin UPSes

The costly effects of power problems in an enterprise environment

The effects of blackouts and other power problems in an enterprise environment can be devastating and costly. Using a Belkin UPS to protect servers and other critical equipment prevents unnecessary downtime, loss of data, and damage to your hardware. Maximum data integrity and system uptime require a prioritized shutdown plan, which is managed by the bundled power management software. Preserving data is an increasingly complex issue in today’s enterprise environments. Communication systems are required to transfer and store information within internal computer networks and must also provide critical links to enterprise-wide networks.

Specifically designed for enterprise-wide networks

Ensure data integrity system-wide with the bundled power management software

A prioritized shutdown ensures that all network devices are shut down in an orderly, sequential manner, saving all work-in progress throughout the network. The power management software empowers network administrators by allowing them to define their own shutdown process. Thus, a company’s most critical equipment (such as a database or file server) can be shut down last, after work-in progress has been saved from client workstations through hubs, switches, routers, and communication servers.

Ease of serviceability with hot swappable batteries

Features convenient, swappable, front-access batteries

While enhanced battery management has the ability to double battery service life, it cannot prevent inevitable battery failure. When your batteries reach the end of their useful life, replacement is easy with hot swappable batteries. Simple access through the front panel allows you to safely install new batteries without ever powering down the connected equipment.

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