HP Power over Ethernet (PoE/PoE+) Planning and Implementation Guide

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Planning and Implementation for the HP 5400zl/8200zl Switches
Configuration Examples
Mixed J8712A and J8713A Configurations
Note HP networking highly recommends that the two types of power supplies are
not mixed in the same HP 5412zl Switch or HP 8212zl Switch.
Although mixing power supplies is not recommended, the following examples
demonstrate the most common usages. Refer to page 13-27 for the discussion
on failover in a mixed power supply environment.
Figure 13-17.Example of an HP 5412zl with three power supplies (two J8712A and one J8713A)
This configuration (Figure 13-17) is an example of three power supplies two
J8712As supplying 546 watts and one J8713A supplying 900 watts for a
maximum of 1446 watts. Therefore out of the total 288 available ports, 93 can
be powered at 15.4 watts each.
Redundancy now becomes an issue. You can use the one J8713A (900 watts)
to backup the two J8712As if either one of them fails, but you cannot use the
two J8712As to backup the J8713A as they don’t have enough PoE power.
Back
Front
273 watts
for PoE
273 watts
for PoE
900 watts
for PoE
Source of Power Watts Available Number of Ports Powered and
Average watts/Port
Redundant Number of Ports Powered
and Average watts/Port
Three Internal PoE
Power Supplies: two
J8712As one J8713A
1446 (without
redundancy)
93 @ average 15.4 W each
192 @ average 7.5 W each
288 @ average 4.0 W each
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