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

Features and Benefits of the AB465A

Features and benefits of the AB465A 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 16k LUNs on the Fibre Channel ports.

• Auto speed sensing on the Fibre Channel ports.

• Supports readout of Vital Product Data (VPD) for Fibre Channel.

• Supports Virtual Partitions (vPars 3.02 or higher) on specified HP 9000 (PA-RISC-based)

systems. Boot over vPars is supported on the Fibre Channel ports.

• 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.

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 Fibre Channel solutions, go to

:http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html

For further assistance including a detailed analysis of your specific requirements and needs,

please contact your local HP Sales Representative.