Technologies for data center multi-zone cabling

An orchestrator server for managing resources of a data center, the orchestrator server comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more memory devices having stored therein a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the orchestrator server to:
• receive a request for creation of a low-latency virtual machine;
• and
• select, in response to the request for creation of the low-latency virtual machine, one or more sleds of the data center in a low-latency zone, wherein each sled in the low-latency zone is connected to the same network switch via a corresponding data cable of a plurality of data cables, wherein each data cable of the plurality of data cables has a length shorter than or approximately equal to the length of each other data cable of the plurality of data cables connected to the same network switch;
• and
• create, in response to the request for creation of the low-latency virtual machine, the low-latency virtual machine with use of the one or more sleds.

A method for configuring a data center, the method comprising:

• determining a length from each rack of a plurality of racks to a network switch of the data center;
• assigning each rack of the plurality of racks to a zone of a plurality of zones associated with the network switch based on a determination that the corresponding distance from the rack to the network switch is above a minimum threshold distance associated with the assigned zone and below a maximum threshold distance associated with the assigned zone;
• selecting, for each rack of the plurality of racks, a length of a data cable to connect the rack to the network switch based on the assigned zone;
• and
• connecting, for each rack of the plurality of racks, a data cable with the selected length from the rack to the network switch, wherein the length selected for each data cable is approximately the same as the length of each other data cable selected for each rack of the plurality of racks assigned to the same zone.

One or more machine-readable media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, causes a compute device to:

• receive a request for creation of a low-latency virtual machine;
• and
• select, in response to the request for creation of the low-latency virtual machine, one or more sleds of the data center in a low-latency zone, wherein each sled in the low-latency zone is connected to the same network switch via a corresponding data cable of a plurality of data cables, wherein each data cable of the plurality of data cables has a length shorter than or approximately equal to the length of each other data cable of the plurality of data cables connected to the same network switch;
• and
• create, in response to the request for creation of the low-latency virtual machine, the low-latency virtual machine with use of the one or more sleds.