CyberPower PDU41001 Switched PDU, 100-120V/15A (Derated to 12A), 8 Outlets, 1U Rackmount

This is exactly what I was looking for in my home lab! I wanted a really good enterprise-grade PDU that didn't take up insane amounts of room since i wasn't going to be rackmounting it. This fits the bill perfectly and sits on my desk without taking up too much space. The display is bright enough to see in daylight perfectly, and you can change the color of the display. The remote interface worked flawlessly out of the box utilizing my DHCP, and configuration was a breeze! The only bummer was seeing the actual power consumption numbers i saw for using for all my devices $$$! But before I was ignorant and could tell myself that someone was stealing electricity, not anymore! This tells me exactly what I need to know, and should be perfect to help me control remote power events while I'm away.

I've purchased and used several of the MSNSwitch 2-outlet units with IP control - mostly because they were the least expensive I could find (~$100). But, I still had several applications where 2 outlets wouldn't cut it. Finally, I found this unit which was much cheaper than they typical $500+ these strips usually go for.The unit was easy to rackmount and setup. I'm actively using 3 ports configured with special power-on delays. So far, its operated exactly as I would expect. I will likely purchase a second of these as soon as outgrow this one.

The only thing I have been disappointed about this product is that using the cascading feature sometimes has issues in the software, where it might reset the outlet on the master rather than the slave; it is just a minor issue and I have workaround so I know when it might happen.

I manage 2 datacenters and a dozen corporate offices and we have always used APC UPSs and PDUs. When building out a new office space we needed one more PDU and decided to give Cyberpower a try. I can;t even explain how painful it has been. We have dozen of APC products and maybe opened one or two tech support cases over the last ten years. We haven't been able to get this Cyberpower device to work after 2 years!I guess it works fine for a power strip, but if you want to use the intelligent/network features these things simply don't work or are completely unreliable. For us the device just simply says it is constantly going offline - like every 10 minutes all day every day. Why would we pay over $400 if we didn't want to monitor it? Tech support basically says SNMP is unsupported and "has a tendency to become unresponsive" if it is being pinged. Yeah - that's called monitoring.I'd highly suggest going with APC or another vendor or save your money and just buy a power strip.

Works great out of the box. Intuitive interface and management through snmp makes life great.

PDU works great. Saves me many trips into the office!

This unit is easy to set up and use. Very happy with it!

This PDU claims to have SSH support for secure remote access. This is an important feature for me. But the firmware is poorly engineered and locks out SSH access frequently. After some uptime, attempts to connect on the SSH port will be met with an error: "Received disconnect from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. port 22:12: Someone has been login the Shell Service". The grammar error suggests cheaply produced offshored firmware. And it's buggy. If I can't SSH into this PDU to control the power remotely, then its functionality is useless to me. I contacted CyberPower support and identified this exact issue - I told them they need to get their firmware team to find this error (can't be too hard to search the source code for this poor English phrase) and fix it, and they basically told me to go pound sand. They have been alerted to a significant issue and are doing nothing about it. They offered to send me a replacement PDU but I have mission critical servers connected to the existing PDU at my data center and can't just swap PDUs out so easily; and moreover, if they can't fix the underlying problem, why would a replacement PDU of the same model do anything other than waste my time also?