T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower Uninterruptible Power Supplies

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) offerings provide power protection with increased efficiency and simplified power management to safeguard the high-availability of Lenovo server environments. With efficiency ratings of up to 97%, these compact tower designs can help reduce energy usage without compromising performance or reliability.

Figure 1. Tower UPS unit (T1kVA or T1.5kVA)

T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units feature Advanced Battery Management (ABM) technology that uses a unique three-stage charging technique that significantly extends battery service life and optimizes recharge time, compared to traditional charging.

T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units can enhance system availability with individual receptacle groups or load segments that can be programmed and controlled, which allows mission-critical devices to be prioritized during shutdown to preserve battery run time if there is a prolonged power outage.

T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units come standard with UPS Power Manager (UPM) power management software that integrates seamlessly with the major virtual platforms, which enables you to view and manage your entire power system from your current dashboard. It also triggers live migration during power outages and avoids data loss by gracefully shutting down virtual machines and hosts in a cluster if there is an extended power outage.

Table 1 shows the part numbers and feature codes for the T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS models and options.

Table 1. Ordering part numbers and feature codes

Note: listed units above, are not entitled to a free 3-year IPM license.

The UPS models ship the following items:

• An accessory kit, which contains the following items:
  • Serial cable: 1.2 m (4 ft)
  • USB cable
  • Remote emergency power-off (REPO) connector
• A documentation kit, which contains the following items:
  • Documentation package
  • Software CD, which contains UPM software

The 100 - 125 V models (1AX and 2AX) ship with fixed 1.8 m NEMA 5-15P line cord. The 200 - 240 V models (1KX and 2KX) do not ship with line cords. Table 2 lists the compatible line cords, which are suitable for models 1KX and 2KX.

A UPS is a device that acts as a defensive barrier between electronic equipment and incoming power problems. It conditions, regulates, and filters out power disturbances to ensure a clean power source for IT equipment. A UPS also provides battery backup if there is a power failure.

In today’s high availability server environments, unplanned power outages or line quality irregularities can have a considerable financial effect on all sized businesses. The typical utility power is 99.9% available, but that means that there can be almost 9 hours of downtime a year, which includes brownouts and other power quality problems.

Selecting the right UPS can help protect against these potentially costly incidents.

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units are most effective against five power problems: power failures, power sags, power surges, under-voltage, and over-voltage.

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS models offer the following features:

• High-efficiency protection delivers more real power (watts) in a compact design, lowering power, and cooling consumption
• Graphical Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) provides intuitive configuration, management, and monitoring capabilities in the following languages to reduce management complexity:
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
• Hot-swappable batteries for maximum uptime, availability, and ease of maintenance
• Standard UPS Power Manager software provides effective local or remote power monitoring and management for servers and virtual machines and allows for graceful remote system shutdown
• ABM technology significantly extends battery service life and optimizes recharge time
• Load segments for individual control of receptacle groups to manage sequential shut downs and start ups and reserve battery run time for the most critical equipment
• Optional NMC for enhanced UPS monitoring and control over-the-network through a standard web browser
• Optional Environmental Monitoring Probe for thermal management requirements (temperature and humidity)
• Allows dual channel communication through the USB or RS-232 port and an optional NMC at the same time to maximize communications flexibility
• Remote flash upgradeable firmware for the UPS and NMC, which makes it an ideal solution for remote locations
• Includes a Remote On/Off (ROO)/Remote Power Off (RPO) port to control power of the UPS unit through a wired remote switch

Table 3 lists the technical specifications for the T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units.

The following two tables list the expected period that the T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS models operate solely on batteries, depending on the load.

Note: Battery backup times are approximate and can vary with equipment, configuration, battery age, and temperature.

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units have a 5-button graphical LCD on the front. The LCD provides useful information about the UPS, load status, events, measurements, and settings.

The following functions are available on the control panel:

• Status information: Displays the battery status, load percentage, output power, operational mode, and load group information.
• Measurements: Displays the output watts VA, amperage, power factor, voltage, frequency, input voltage, input frequency, battery voltage, efficiency, and power usage.
• Control: Displays the battery test, reset error state, configure load segments, clear power usage measurements, and restore settings.
• Settings: Allows you to change product general parameters and set input and output parameters, on/off conditions, and battery configuration.
• Fault log: Displays the event log and alarm history.
• Identification: Displays the machine type, model, and serial number of the unit and the firmware level of the UPS, including the optional NMC’s firmware level, and IP address, if installed.

The T1kVA Tower UPS unit has the following physical specifications (approximate):

• Height: 233 mm (9.1 in.)
• Width: 150 mm (5.9 in.)
• Depth: 345 mm (13.6 in.)
• Weight: 11.5 kg (24.4 lb)

The T1.5kVA Tower UPS unit has the following physical specifications (approximate):

• Height: 233 mm (9.1 in.)
• Width: 150 mm (5.9 in.)
• Depth: 445 mm (17.5 in.)
• Weight: 16.2 kg (35.3 lb)

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units are supported in the following environment:

• Temperature (operation):
  • T1kVA Tower UPS: 0 - 35 °C (32 - 95 °F)
  • T1.5kVA Tower UPS: 0 - 40 °C (32 - 104 °F)
• Relative humidity: 5 - 95%
• Maximum altitude (operation): 3,000 m (9,843 ft)

Note: These UPS units are not supported in a maritime environment.

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS units conform to the following regulations:

• FCC
• UL
• CSA or cUL
• CE Mark
• NOM
• GOST
• BSMI Taiwan
• CB Report
• VCCI
• C-Tick (Australia)
• IRAM (Argentina)

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS, including batteries, have a three-year limited warranty. Optional features include a one-year warranty.

Optional software can be downloaded to be used the UPS units. This software is the UPS Power Manager (UPM) and UPS Power Protector (UPP) software. The UPM software can manage multiple devices. The UPP software is used to manage a single device. Note that a device refers to a UPS or a PDU.

UPS Power Manager

The UPS Power Manager (UPM) software is free to use for up to 10 devices (PDUs or UPS units). It is available either as a Windows application or a virtual appliance (OVF file). Download the software from:
https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/lnvo-ups-mgmt

For up to 100 devices, a Silver license can be purchased. For up to 600 devices, a Gold license can be purchased. The following table shows the part number ordering information for each version of the UPM software.

The purchase of a Silver or Gold license adds additional management features not found in the Basic license. The following table shows the UPM licenses and features for each license when managing Lenovo UPS units.

(1) Support for SNMPv1 required at target device
(2) Requires UPM v1.65.221 or higher

UPM brings managing various power and environmental devices under control through a single, web-based interface. The UPM software solution ensures system uptime and data integrity by allowing you to monitor, manage, and control the devices on your network remotely.

The UPM user interface is shown in the following figure.

Figure 9. UPM User Interface

The UPM software offers the following features:

• Monitors and manages multiple power and environmental devices from a web browser or your virtual machine management dashboard
• Seamlessly integrates into popular virtualization infrastructures, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, and Linux KVM
• Triggers live migration for virtual machines during power outages
• By using a user-definable tree structure, enables grouping, access, and management of multiple devices across multiple locations
• Monitors power consumption, which helps track ways to improve energy efficiency
• Uses auto discovery to provide fast installation by automatically detecting devices on the network
• Mass-upgrades firmware, which reduces network management card setup and maintenance time

UPS Power Protector

The UPP software is free to download and use. Download it from the following links (v1.52.007):

• Windows: https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS119231
• Linux: https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/DS119230

UPP software facilitates automatic, graceful shutdown of computers, servers, and network devices that are powered by a UPS, which saves all work-in-progress and ensures data integrity. UPP's user interface provides detailed information about connected servers and UPS units through USB and serial or network communication.

The UPP user interface is shown in the following figure.

Figure 10. UPP User Interface

The UPP software offers the following features:

• Helps avoid data loss by gracefully shutting down computers and virtual machines or servers that are powered by a UPS during an extended power outage
• Keeps servers running smoothly by automatically identifying hang-ups and rebooting the machine by using a watchdog capability
• Provides redundancy capability for dual-cord servers
• An easy-to-use web browser interface
• Communicates with the protected device directly (via USB or serial) or through the network (via NMC)

The T1kVA and T1.5kVA Tower UPS offerings are compatible with all ThinkSystem, System x and ThinkServer systems and other devices that require AC power.

To determine the best fit UPS for a particular configuration, the following needs to be considered:

• Total power load of the hardware that will be connected to the UPS
• Number and type of outlets required
• UPS outlet and group limitations for connecting the hardware to the UPS

To determine chassis, node and server overall power capacities, use the Power Configurator tool. The tool can be downloaded from http://support.lenovo.com/documents/LNVO-PWRCONF

To determine the power draw of other devices such as storage and switching that will be attached to the UPS, refer to the products user manual for the maximum power draw. 

For additional technical information on the UPS line cords, outlets and grouping refer to the UPS Technical Reference, https://support.lenovo.com/docs/UM104477

For more information, see the following resources:

• Power and Cooling Technical References:
  https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/lnvo-powinf
• Power Configurator Tool:
  https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/documents/LNVO-PWRCONF
• Installation and User's Guide - Tower UPS
  https://systemx.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.sysx.racks.doc/rk_tower_ups_iug.pdf
• Network Management Card User Guide
  http://ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5085199