Performance and Recommended Use of AB465A Combination 2-Port 2-Gb Fibre Channel / 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet Cards

How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel 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
HP StorageWorks
DS2405 Fibre Channel
Disk Systems
Four DS2405 2Gb/s FC disk
systems with a mix of drives for Fibre
Channel tests.
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 Fibre Channel tests
Diskbench (db) is the benchmark
suite that generated disk read
and write traffic for the FC tests.
Table 1
Products Used in the Performance Measurement Tests
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