AB379B - PCI-X Dual Channel 4Gb/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 AB379B
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on HP Integrity servers. The system
configurations in the test setup are tabulated in the following table:
Products used in testing
products used for performance measurement test
rx6600
• Configured with
Ø Eight 1600MHz Intel Itanium 2
(Montecito) Processor Cores
Ø 32GB System Memory
• One I/O Chassis with
Ø two PCI-X 266 Mhz slots
Ø two PCI-X 133 Mhz slots
Ø four PCI-X 66 Mhz slots
• AB379B Adapters
Ø in the two PCI-X 266 Mhz slots
Servers
Tested
Integrity Superdome sx2000
• 4 Cell partition, each cell with
Ø Four1600 MHz Intel Itanium 2
(Madison) Processor Cores
Ø 16 GB System Memory
• Three I/O Chassis’s, each with
Ø two PCI-X 266 Mhz slots
Ø six PCI-X 133 Mhz slots
Ø four PCI-X 66 Mhz slots
• Six AB379B Adapters
Ø In the six PCI-X 266Mhz slots
OS version
HP-UX OS version
• HP-UX 11i v2
• AB379B Fibre Channel driver
(Ver. B.11.23.05)
HBAs
AB379B HBA
• PCI-X dual–channel 4Gb Fibre Channel
adapter
• Each port capable of independently
operating at 1, 2, or 4 Gb/s (Auto-
Negotiation)
Benchmark software
Diskbench is the I/O benchmark tool used to
generate disk read and write traffic for these tests.
Disks
MSA1500
• HP StorageWorks product
• Fibre Channel Disk Array
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The AB379A card, which offers equivalent performance and functionality to the AB379B, was used in the actual performance tests. The
AB379A has been superseded by the AB379B card to provide additional platform support.
diskbench
HP
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UX
11i v2