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Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000 Revision 6.0 April 2020...
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Procedure B: Verify and connect..............23 Procedure C: Obtain customer verification............24 PDU labels......................24 PDU label part number................. 24 Applying PDU labels................25 AC power specifications................... 26 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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Contents Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Connecting AC power, three-phase, PowerMax 2000, two dual-engine systems in a rack ............................21 Connecting AC power, three-phase, PowerMax 8000............21 PDU label , single-phase and three-phase................. 25 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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Figures Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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PDU label location, third-party racks................24 Input power requirements - Single-phase, North American, International, Australian ..26 Input power requirements - Three-phase, North American, International, Australian ..26 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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Tables Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Preface As part of an effort to improve its product lines, Dell EMC periodically releases revisions of its software and hardware. Functions that are described in this document may not be supported by all versions of the software or hardware. The product release notes provide the most up-to-date information about product features.
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May 2018 First release of the Dell EMC Best Practices Guide for AC Power May 2018 Connections for PowerMax 2000, 8000 with PowerMaxOS . Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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Preface Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Procedure A: Working with the customer's electrician onsite..........16 Procedure B: Verify and connect...................23 Procedure C: Obtain customer verification................24 labels..........................24 AC power specifications......................26 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Power feed 1 Circuit Circuit Circuit breakers - Numbers Circuit breakers - Numbers breakers breakers on (|) on (|) Customer’s Customer’s PDU 1 PDU 2 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
PDU page 24 source cables are already plugged into the PDU and you have no access to the customer- supplied power cables. Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Dell EMC CE and back to the customer's electrician. Task 1: Customer's electrician Task 2: Dell EMC Customer Engineer (CE) Task 3: Customer's electrician Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
PDU 1 breaker breaker off (0) off (0) Circuit breakers - Numbers Circuit breakers - Numbers Customer’s PDU 2 Labels on customer power lines Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
Source 1 SYSTEM SYSTEM (Rear View) (Rear View) Circuit Circuit Circuit Circuit Breakers Breakers Breakers Breakers Zone B Zone A Zone B Zone A Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
B. Place the labels close to the connectors that connect the line cords to the customer-supplied power cables. Figure 5 Line cord identification label Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
P1 P3 P5 P1 P3 P5 Mating connector or Mating connector or customer-supplied cable customer-supplied cable Customer’s PDU 1 Customer’s PDU 2 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
AC input line cord B line cord A Mating connector or Mating connector or customer-supplied cable customer-supplied cable Customer’s PDU 1 Customer’s PDU 2 Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
This task is performed by the customer's electrician. Procedure 1. Working with the Dell EMC Customer Engineer, turn ON all the relevant circuit breakers in customer-supplied PDU 2. Verify that only power supply and/or SPS LEDs in power zone A are ON or flashing green in every bay in the array.
5. Record the customer-supplied PDU information as described in Procedure A, Task 2. 6. Label the PDUs as described in Applying PDU labels on page 25. Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
A and B. Place the label close to the plug but on the side of the rack where it will not interfere with any rails. Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
The customer's electrician must be alerted to this possible condition to balance the phase-by-phase loading conditions within the customer's data center. Dell EMC PowerMax Family Best Practices Guide for AC Power Connections PowerMax 2000 and PowerMax 8000...
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