Voltaire Unified Fabrics Efficiency Calculator

Calculate the efficiency of your datacenter by choosing the options below that best fit your data center’s current environment. Check out the savings you can expect by installing a Voltaire Unified Fabric Solution!

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Data Center Architecture

Results

Required Network Interfaces Power and Cooling Space Required Application Efficiency
Traditional Parallel Network Infrastructure 1GbE - - - -
10GbE -
FC -
Unified Fabric InfiniBand - - - -
Efficiency Improvement when using Unified Fabric - - -
Energy Savings per Year -

Assumptions

The Power and Cooling calculations performed above are based upon the following parameters:

Cores Watt/Port (server) Watt/Port (switch) Total Watts/attached server Cooling/attached server Space (U/100 servers)
1GbE 3.4 5.1 8.5 29 2.1
10GbE 15.7 46.9 62.6 213 6.3
FC 4.8 6.9 11.6 40 2.1
InfiniBand 5.2 5.0 10.2 35 4.2

The total value of energy savings is based on a data center with the number of servers selected above.