What is a PDU in an intelligent, energy-aware data center?

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Dec 17, 2013

PDU resized 600Today's PDUs provide data about:

* Power use

* Efficiency

* Environmental conditions in the data center.

These are networked across the LAN and managed through a Web browser or command-line interface (CLI).

A rack-based PDU's primary role is to control the distribution of: power to servers, storage units, network switches and other equipment in each rack.

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