Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-12 Thread Peter Tiggerdine
APC is fine for DC use where the power is nice and clean in phase. I've seen APC perform pretty poorly though out in the field where the power isn't so clean and VFD's may feed back harmonics in the power circuits. Whatever you do, consider lifecycle of the device and maybe have a cold spare avail

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-09 Thread Matt Walker
This happened to HP/HPE/DXC/Whatever-they’re-called a year or 2 ago at EBDC (TallyHo) We have deployed both the APC and recently the ION ATS’s. Both seem fine to me, we’ve did some pretty solid testing on them when they were installed and setup - only downside to the ION ones is the web managem

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-08 Thread Damien Luke
We've also had this happen at Global Switch and Metronode over the years, not that unusual but as always it's up to the customer to plan for losing a single feed and cater for single feed devices. I've seen work occur on power circuits at DCs where the operator didn't isolate the feed (aka hot).

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-08 Thread Mark Tees
Not sure about Global Switch but from memory power at Equinix (at least in some parts of SY1/2) goes customer feed primary -> big STS -> UPS A/B -> ATS -> grid power or genset. Same for customer secondary feed but via different STS/UPS. You could see the large transfer switches on SY1 floor I thi

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-08 Thread Patrick Cole
James, We had this sort of maintenance performed in Equinix SY1 once in the last 10-20 years. You must just be lucky. Regards, Patrick Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 09:21:39PM +1000, James Cunningham wrote: >I'm assuming this is a result of NextDC announcing maintenance at S1 where >they are

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-08 Thread James Cunningham
I'm assuming this is a result of NextDC announcing maintenance at S1 where they are turning off one of the power feeds to your racks? We got one of these as well. Is it just me, or am I the only one concerned that NextDC have to turn off power to one of our power feeds in our racks? We have been

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Michael J. Carmody
Same, Ditto, Etc. -Michael -Original Message- From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-boun...@lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jarryd Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2017 5:37 PM To: 'Brad Peczka' ; Andrew Yager Cc: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & r

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Jarryd Sullivan
o: Tony de Francesco ; Mark Foster ; Andrew Yager Cc: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations? A vote here for the APC units. I've got a number deployed, both in Data Centres and much further afield, and aside from a firmware bug a few years back they've

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Brad Peczka
t: Wednesday, 8 November 2017 7:57 AM To: Mark Foster; Andrew Yager Cc: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations? We've had clients using this micro-ATS: http://www.zonit.com/products/micro-ats/ If you need pricing and availability contact PiTek: http://

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Tony de Francesco
lf Of Mark Foster Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2017 10:37 AM To: Andrew Yager Cc: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net Subject: Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations? Previously deployed this one: http://www.dynamix.net.au/index.html?do=viewproduct&code=RP-ATS&ID=7842286 3 (Dynamix RP-ATS) Had

Re: [AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Mark Foster
Previously deployed this one: http://www.dynamix.net.au/index.html?do=viewproduct&code=RP-ATS&ID=78422863 (Dynamix RP-ATS) Had no problems - but only limited exposure to it's actual performance 'under fire' as our power supply was pretty reliable. APC (Schneider Electric) have a range of their

[AusNOG] ATS vs STS & recommendations?

2017-11-07 Thread Andrew Yager
Hi All, One of our DC providers is removing some power from a single feed in some of our racks soon, and a couple of our customers have some single fed units that are connected to the “wrong” rail. We are looking to help them out with ATS or STSs. I remember some discussion some time ago about