"The solution's color chassis options are a benefit. One of our new standards is that we've gone red and yellow with all power cables and PDUs, for primary and redundant. It's very easy for a technician to see that he's not unplugging both the power supplies of one unit. When everything is black and you're trying to trace it, sometimes your finger accidentally comes off the cable and you get on the wrong one. Next thing you know, you've unplugged both power supplies of a system and you have a crash... The red and yellow make it almost idiot proof."
"What's most valuable about this is that Eaton built for us the exact model that I needed. We went through the customization options, everything from the cable length and electrical specifications to the color of the PDU. It showed different color PDUs to keep my company's data center that much more organized."
"You can scale it by adding batteries."
"We have not had a lot of issues over the many years we have been using the solution."
"Stability is one of the key points. The durability and lifetime of the product are also notable."
"I like it because we don't have any problems."
"The initial setup was slightly complicated due to the mounting incompatibility with the competitor's server cabinets, the one that I described to you earlier."
"My only complaint with it is that we use Panduit wire management and Eaton's PDUs will not lock into Panduit. There are two little knobs on the back where you can just slip it in and it'll lock right into the wire management, but it does not work on Panduit. It only works on their proprietary wire management. It needs to be able to integrate with other wire managers."
"The duration of the batteries could be much better."
"Schneider's vendor, I believe, needs to be more involved with the customer. We have to constantly look for them because they don't come to me. I have to go there, and I don't want to. I don't want to waste time looking for a vendor. We require immediate attention."
"We have been having some issues with the solutions controller and we are having problems finding spare parts."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
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Eaton PDUs is ranked 11th in Data Center Power Solutions while Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT is ranked 1st in Data Center Power Solutions with 5 reviews. Eaton PDUs is rated 10.0, while Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Eaton PDUs writes "Power monitoring alerts us when there is a commercial power issue to help ensure we don't lose equipment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT writes "Easy to manage, reliable, and worth the price". Eaton PDUs is most compared with , whereas Schneider Electric-APC Smart-UPS VT is most compared with Eaton UPS, Liebert NX, MGE Galaxy and Emerson Network Power Npower.
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