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

Fibre Channel Only Performance
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Fibre Channel Only Performance
Figure 5 shows the performance results for the 2Gb Fibre Channel ports when unidirectional
disk traffic is being run through the card.
The following highlights show the excellent performance achieved during Fibre Channel
traffic testing:
Figure 5
AB465A Fibre Channel Throughput in rx4640
• Disk write traffic achieved greater than 92% of link rate on the rx4640 with one port
achieving 186 MB/s and two ports reaching 370 MB/s.
• Disk read traffic consistently achieved greater than 94% of link rate on the rx4640
system. One port achieved 191 MB/s for disk reads and 2 ports achieved 377 MB/s.