HP BladeSystem c7000 Maximum Theoretical Bandwidth
• Four switches with up to two data lanes per blade (8 lanes)
• Two switches with up to four data lanes per blade (8 lanes)
This configuration appears to provide the highest theoretical bandwidth possible.
To calculate the maximum theoretical bandwidth using the same assumptions described above, the HP c-Class chassis would have 16 blades with 16 data lanes each, or 256 total data lanes:
• 160Gbps half-duplex per blade (16 data lanes at 10Gbps each, inbound or outbound)
• 320Gbps full-duplex per blade (inbound and outbound data rates added together)
• 5.12Tbps full-duplex per chassis (16 blades x 320Gbps)
Reference.
HP
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00810839/c00810839.pdf
http://ideasint.blogs.com/ideasinsights/2011/08/is-your-blade-chassis-obsolete.html
