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Verari Blade With InfiniBand Demo Configuration
With GigE for LAN, Server and FC SAN for Storage GigE for LAN, IB for Server & SAN With connectivity to existing GigE and FC
Other Possible Configurations
Cost and Power for building 128 Node Server Farm
I/O Purchase Cost: $870KI/O Power: 2300W
I/O Purchase Cost: $434KI/O Power: 1792W
I/O Purchase Cost: $352KI/O Power: 1676W
VMware I/O Consolidation using Verari Blade Servers and InfiniBand
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VMware ESX Device Emulation of IBTransparent VM & Virtual Center Experience / Scale Out
VM Transparent Server I/O Scaling & Consolidation with InfiniBand Save on PCI slots – Great for blades
3X GigE, 10X FC SAN PerformancePer adapter performance. Based on comparisons with GigE and 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel
VMware SAN Performance with IB – 1500 MB/s SAN performance as seen from 4 VMs
Seamless HA and Failover
Significant performance benefits expected for Back Up, Cloning, Migration, Virtual Appliance deployment and other functions*
Same as four dedicated 4Gb/s FC HBAs* Not quantified yet 128KB Read benchmarks from four VMs
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