Take the Journey to Understand When to Choose Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA or Vertiv™ Liebert® MBX
Growth is good! The enterprise and colocation data centre market is growing exponentially. As a result, your data centre and IT team is likely planning deployment for equipment across one or more facilities, with the help of trusted consultants and vendor partners. When it comes to rack-level power distribution, you have two good options: Remote Power Panel (RPPs) and busways. So, which one should you choose for your data centre or network of facilities? The answer will vary depending on your business and technology needs. Take the journey to get targeted guidance and solutions for your data centre power needs.
1. Grandview Research
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How to Choose the Right Power Distribution System for Your Data Center
Remote Power Distribution System
As a factory-configured, certified and tested system, Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA can be easily ordered and shipped to your site for installation. You will require an electrician, however, to set up branch circuits onsite.
Vendors have industrialised supply chains, shortening the time to provision a new large data centre of to just nine or 10 months – or even as short as .
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Busway System
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB may take more time for the initial design and final layout configuration. As a modular solution, however, anyone can install the plug-and-play tap-off boxes and busbars onsite.
I want to speed up the deployment of initial infrastructure at my new facility.
20 megawatts or more
six months
Select one of the two power distribution systems below
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I want to standardise the approach across our network of data centres.
Standardising your design approach will help control costs, drive deployment speeds and equipment performance, and reduce errors as you scale across facilities and networks.
Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA can serve as your standard go-to solution for both power distribution and redundant power operations. It will likely meet most of your business and technical requirements at the sites you manage, while avoiding the time and cost required to custom-build a Remote Power Panel (RPP).
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB has open-channel tracking that enables tap-off boxes to be flexibly configured and placed anywhere along the busway. Thus, the Powerbar iMPB provides a good mix of standardisation and customisation to meet your needs.
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I want to maximise floor space at my data centre.
Of the top 10 most expensive data centre markets, Europe represents four.
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Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA does take floor space but has a sleek form factor of 604 mm (24”) by 329 mm (13”), giving it one of the smallest footprints in the market. Cabling is placed in subflooring or overhead to save extra space.
Data centre teams are more likely to choose Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB when floor space is constrained. Tracking, tap-off boxes and cabling are installed over rows of IT equipment, keeping floors clear for compute equipment.
Stockholm
$8.9/w
$8.8/w
Copenhagen
$11.4/w
Zürich
$9.1/w
London
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I want to monitor power usage at all times.
Uptime Institute article and report
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Thanks to Vertiv™ Liebert® DPM Power Monitoring System, Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA provides intelligent power distribution monitoring and alarming. Voltage, current, power and energy metering data that’s accurate to within 1.5% are all shown on the colour touchscreen display. That makes it easy for your techs to program it, manage loads and import configurations.
An overhead solution of tracking, tap-off boxes and cabling, Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB can be adapted to provide monitoring of tap-off boxes and circuit breakers, or both upon request.
Power usage effectiveness (PUE) averages at large Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) data centres, but new builds can achieve PUE ratios of .
1.46
1.2 to 1.4
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I want to use intelligent power monitoring to identify trends and anomalies.
Uptime Institute report, ibid
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Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA provides reliable power and can be used for redundant operations. It provides alarming of any phase imbalances, enabling your team to avoid issues before they become outages. Liebert RXA also has hot-swappable components, unlike a custom-built RPP.
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB feeds power to each rack via tap-off boxes containing circuit breakers, fuses, switch disconnects or outlets. It also provides monitoring and hot-swappable capabilities.
More than data centre teams had a major outage in 2020:
Reliable and redundant power distribution can help avoid disabling outages and equipment damage.
Severe (6%)
Serious (14%)
Significant (24%)
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Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA is a finger-safe unit. In addition, the hot-swappable panel board enables branch circuits to be replaced while the unit is live. That means Liebert RXA can be safely serviced by your data centre staff or system integrators, not just electricians, reducing your operational costs.
Finger-safe designs put worker safety first, protecting your staff as they conduct daily operations.
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB tap-off boxes are fitted to the busbar using a three-step installation process and a “earth first, break last” safety feature. Excess current will always exit the busway system through the grounding strip.
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I want my staff to feel safe adding or replacing loads.
Need to add more power? Consider adding another unit, running two Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA panels together. They can be installed anywhere inside white space: in multiple configurations, including back-to-back and side-by-side, coupling two to four units together.
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB is a modular system that your IT staff can easily reconfigure to add more capacity. Simply add more tap-off boxes to the track to gain more power capacity. In addition, your current busway can be easily extended by adding new track, allowing you to accommodate more servers as you grow.
Grandview Research
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Racks are densifying to meet digital demands, leading to greater power usage. That’s why the global data centre power market is slated to grow to
$10.8 billion by 2025.
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I want to be able to add more capacity at any time.
Did you discover the ideal power distribution solution for your data centre?
Learn more about Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA
meets your demands for high-density power distribution, with a compact footprint, flexible installation options, optional finger-safe capabilities, integrated intelligent monitoring and a lower total cost of ownership. Use Liebert® RXA to standardise, streamline and scale your data centre operations.
Vertiv™ Liebert® RXA
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Learn more about Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB
is available as a single or dual-bus configuration. Use Vertiv Powerbar iMPB to provide reliable power distribution for any sized data centre, keep floor space open for equipment, and accommodate frequent hardware refreshes.
Vertiv™ Powerbar iMPB
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