A technician installs a rack in a datacenter. The rack has two power strips installed in it. To ensure maximum power redundancy for the rack, how should each PDU power strip be connected?

Connecting both strips to the same floor PDU creates a single point of failure at that PDU, negating any redundancy benefit from having two strips.

Using different floor PDUs improves distribution but both PDUs may still be fed by the same UPS, leaving a single point of failure upstream.

Connecting both strips to the same UPS still leaves the UPS as a single point of failure, meaning a UPS failure would simultaneously drop both power strips.

Connecting each power strip to a different datacenter UPS creates two completely independent power paths from the utility or generator all the way to the equipment. If one UPS fails, loses battery, or is taken offline for maintenance, the second power strip - fed by the other UPS - continues to supply power uninterrupted, providing true N+1 or 2N power redundancy.