A6826A - PCI-X Dual Channel 2Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapter Performance Paper for Integrity Servers

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Test details
The performance results presented in this paper were obtained with A6826A adapters installed in various HP
Integrity servers. The system configurations used in the test setup are detailed in the following table:
Products used in testing
products used for performance measurement test
rx2600
• Configured with
¾ Two 900MHz Intel Itanium 2
Processors
¾ 4GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11i v2 OS
• A6826A Fibre Channel driver (Ver.
B.11.23.01)
rx4640
• Configured with
¾ Four 1.3GHz Intel Itanium 2
Processors
¾ 8 GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11i v2 OS
• A6826A Fibre Channel driver (Ver.
B.11.23.01)
rx7620
• 2 Cell partition, each cell with
¾ Four 1.3GHz Intel Itanium 2
Processors
¾ 8GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11i v2 OS
• A6826A Fibre Channel driver (Ver.
B.11.23.01)
rx8620
• 2 Cell partition, each cell with
¾ Four 1.3GHz Intel Itanium 2
Processors
¾ 8GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11i v2 OS
• A6826A Fibre Channel driver (Ver.
B.11.23.01)
Integrity Superdome
• 2 Cell partition, each cell with
¾ Four1.5GHz Intel Itanium 2
Processors
¾ 8GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11i v2 OS
• A6826A Fibre Channel driver (Ver.
B.11.23.01)
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 capable
Benchmark software
Diskbench (db) is the benchmark suite that
generated disk read and write traffic for these tests.
db