A6826A - PCI-X Dual port 2Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapter Performance Paper for PCI Platforms

Test details
The performance results presented in this paper were obtained with A6826A on various HP platforms. The system
configurations in the test setup are tabulated in the following table:
Products used in testing
products used diskbench for performance measurement test
rp8400
• 2 cell partition
• Each cell with
 2 - 750MHz PA-8700
CPUs
 4GB System Memory
• HP-UX B.11.11 OS
• 2Port 2Gig Fibre Channel driver
(Ver. B.11.11.01)
Superdome
• 2 Cell partition
• Each cell with
 2 - 875 MHz PA-? CPUs
 4 GB System Memory
• HP-UX B.11.11 OS
• 2Port 2Gig Fibre Channel driver
(Ver. B.11.11.01)
rp7400
• 8 – 550 MHz PA8600 CPUs
• 8GB System Memory
• HP-UX B.11.11 OS
• 2Port 2Gig Fibre Channel driver
(Ver. B.11.11.01)
rp5450
• 4- 440 MHz PA8500 CPUs
• 4GB System Memory
• HP-UX b.11.11 OS
• 2Port 2Gig Fibre Channel driver
(Ver. B.11.11.01)
Servers
Tested
A6826A HBA
• PCI-X dual–channel 2Gb Fibre
Channel adapter
• Each port capable of
independently operating at 1 or
2 Gb/s (Auto-Negotiation)
• 33/66/100/133MHz-64bit
Benchmark software
Diskbench (db) is the benchmark suite
that generated disk read and write traffic
for these tests.
DS2405
HP StorageWorks 2Gb/s Disk System
db
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