Interact DC User Guide

Interact DC models the servers you run today against the hardware you are considering, and tells you what changes: energy, carbon, floor space, and cost.

Nothing you do here touches your production systems. You describe your estate, we match it against a catalogue of real hardware configurations, and the analysis runs on our side.

Download this guide as a PDF — everything on this site in one document, rebuilt with each release.

Where to start

• Your account

  Signing in, your organisation, and who can see what.

• Run your first simulation

  The whole path, start to finish, in one page.

• Importing from CSV

  Bring in hundreds or thousands of servers at once.

• Reading your results

  What each number means and how far to trust it.

• Common tasks

  A short index of where everything lives.

• Administering your organisation

  For administrators: members, credits, branding and settings.

The shape of the work

Every piece of analysis follows the same four steps.

1. Describe what you run. A specification is your current estate — one line per server configuration. Upload a CSV or enter servers by hand.
2. Choose what to compare it against. A target is hardware you are considering. Add as many as you like and see them side by side.
3. Run it. Each run costs credits, and you are shown the cost before anything is spent.
4. Read the result. Energy, carbon, consolidation and cost, with a report you can export as a PDF.

There is a guided tour inside the app

Open the profile menu in the top right and choose Run your first simulation. It walks you through the same path on the real screens.

Who this guide is for

It assumes no prior experience with the platform. Whether you manage infrastructure and run your own analyses, prepare proposals for clients, or quantify carbon reduction for a sustainability report, this covers what you need to get started.

Getting help

If something here does not match what you see, or you are stuck, see Getting help.