Uninterruptible power supply

Uninterruptible power supplies are available to meet the power protection needs of IBM® servers.

You can use any third-party UPS with compatible electrical requirements (for example, voltage and current ratings, receptacles). You can choose whether to establish communications with the third-party UPS. The most common method is to put the UPS as a node on an Ethernet network and install the software of the UPS manufacturer on each operating system (OS) instance. You then need to configure the software to look for messages that are broadcast from the UPS over the Ethernet network.