Performance and Recommended Use of AB290A Combination 2-Port U320 SCSI / 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Cards

How We Measured GbE and U320 SCSI Efficiency
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Clients generating
the test load for
Gigabit Ethernet
Four rx2600 servers
• Two, 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium2 CPUs
each
• HP-UX 11i version 2
(B.11.23.0303.4)
• One A7012A PCI-X 1000Base-T
card per rx2600
• LAN Driver version – IEther-00
B.11.23.05
MSA30 SB U320 SCSI
Disk Systems
Four U320 SCSI disk systems with a
mix of drives for U320 SCSI tests.
• 13-disks per MSA30 SB
• All disks used in the test
environment were HP 15K RPM
U320 SCSI hard disks.
• Single-Bus
Benchmark software
for Gigabit Ethernet
tests
Netperf 2.2pl4+ is the
benchmarking software suite that
generated LAN traffic for the
Gigabit Ethernet performance tests.
For more information about netperf
or to get a free copy, go to
http://www.netperf.org
Benchmark software
for U320 SCSI tests
Diskbench (db) is the benchmark
suite that generated disk read
and write traffic for the SCSI
tests.
Table 1
Products Used in the Performance Measurement Tests
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