Application note

Maintenance bypass
Application note

May 2012

Maintenance bypass

Designed for reliability and availability

With this arrangement it is necessary to shut down all equipment whenever the UPS needs maintenance or replacement.
To
avoid downtime,
an Eaton HotSwap maintenance bypass
Design
for reliability
unit will optimise power availability and provide an additional
In most
traditional
power designs,
you have one UPS supporting
level
of power
distribution
reliability.
your servers, switches and storage devices. In this type of
environment you are prone to having to shut down your equipment
The
maintenance
bypass
brings
mains
power directly
to
during
a power failure
or if unit
the UPS
needs
maintenance
or
the
UPS and supports
of the equipment. Should the
replacement.
Leverage the
the rest
following:
UPS need to be replaced, you can divert the power directly
Maintenance
bypass
to
the equipment
from the maintenance bypass, letting you
replace
or repair thebypass
UPS without
havingpower
to shut
your equipEaton maintenance
units enhance
availability
to
ment
down.
your rack
and provide an additional level of reliability to your power
distribution design. Utility power runs through the maintenance
bypass to the UPS and then supports the rest of the equipment in
the rack. Should the UPS need to be replaced, you can switch power
directly from the maintenance bypass to the equipment and replace
or fix the UPS without having to shut down your equipment.

For easier integration, Eaton HotSwap Maintenance Bypass

(MBP) can be mounted on the UPS in multiple ways, as
well as being rack and wall mountable as standard.
Automatic transfer switch
Eaton automatic transfer switches (ATS) provide power redundancy
to equipment with one or two power supplies. The ATS automatically
transfers the power from a primary source to a secondary source
if there is a problem with the primary. Once the primary source is
restored, power transfers back through it.
Switch

Server

Storage
eATS

Most traditional power designs, have one UPS supporting all

servers, switches and storage devices.

UPS

Utility Power
(AKA the wall)

Switch

Eaton 9PX UPS with Maintenance

Bypass
UPS

Server

Server

Single cord
Switch

UPS
Utility Power
(AKA the wall)

Server

Maintenance Bypass

Server

ePDU

Storage

UPS
Utility Power
(AKA the wall)

Dual cord
Switch

Eaton EX with Maintenance Bypass

Server

Server

Storage

ePDU

ePDU

Storage

UPS
Utility Power
(AKA the wall)

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