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

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Features and Benefits of the AB290A

Features and benefits of the AB290A include:

• The Gigabit Ethernet ports support virtual LANs (VLANs). A Virtual LAN (VLAN) is a

logical or virtual network segment that can span multiple physical network segments.

VLANs isolate broadcast and multicast traffic by determining which destinations should

receive that traffic, thereby making better use of switch and end-station resources. With

VLANs, broadcasts and multicasts go only to the intended nodes in the virtual LAN.

• The Gigabit Ethernet ports support Jumbo Frames with a maximum transmission unit

(MTU) of 9000 bytes. Jumbo frames achieve much higher throughput than the standard

1500 MTU before reaching optimum CPU utilization.

• Supports Virtual Partitions (vPars 3.02 or higher) on specified systems.

• Supports Ignite UX. Ignite-UX (IUX) is an HP-UX administration toolset to help you install

and configure (or recover) HP-UX systems.

• Supports HP Serviceguard and Auto-Port Aggregation (APA) for high availability.

• Supports PCI-X online addition/replacement (OLA/R) on specified systems.

• Maximum data rate of 320 Mbytes/s over each SCSI channel.

• Supports boot over the 1000Base-T and SCSI interfaces.

• SCSI T10 Parallel Interface SPI-4 operates as two 16-bit wide, synchronous or

asynchronous, low-voltage differential (LVD) or single ended (SE) interfaces.

• SCSI termination is enabled by default.

For More Information

For more information about the products described in this paper such as a current list of

tested HP products or supported systems, please go to:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity.

This paper is the latest in a series of white papers detailing the performance of HP’s link

and server products. For a complete list of white papers on HP’s networking and I/O

products including Gigabit Ethernet and U320 SCSI solutions, go to:

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please contact your local HP Sales Representative.