Hello Everyone,
I was curious to know how many people actually have backup generators protecting their equipment? Does your generator protect only critical systems or does it protect the entire building?
The reason for me asking, it currently we have nothing in place, other than a large UPS (for servers) for small power interruptions, and there have been a few long power outages in the past 2 years, one which lasted 4+ hours.
We are in the design/build phase, on a new building, I brought the idea of a whole building generator, however, it proved to be much $$$. I did propose a modified solution, where critical systems (Servers/NAS/SAN/networking gear) and certain users (desktop users) would be on UPS/Generator power, since the majority of people work off of laptops, they should still be able to function. This seemed like acceptable...