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

1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance
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1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance
Figure 6 shows the performance results when a mix of unidirectional traffic is run
simultaneously through one 2Gb Fibre Channel port and one 1000Base-T port on the
AB465A card.
The following highlights show the exceptional performance the AB465A achieved during
combination traffic testing:
Figure 6
AB465A Throughput with 1 Fibre Channel and 1 GbE
• The first two dark bars show disk read traffic consistently achieved greater than 94% of
link rate on the rx4640 system. The active port achieved 189 MB/s of disk read
throughput. This was while continuous, full standard-Ethernet-frame traffic was occurring
on the active 1000Base-T port.
• The last two dark bars show disk write traffic achieved greater than 92% of link rate on
the rx4640 system. The active FC port achieved 185 MB/s or greater disk write
throughput. This was while continuous, full standard-Ethernet-frame traffic was occurring
on the active 1000Base-T port.
• The light small bars show unidirectional Ethernet traffic achieved link rate on the rx4640
reaching 946 megabits of application data per second for transmit and 947 megabits
per second for receive traffic on the used 1000 Base-T port. This was while continuous
disk traffic was occurring on the active FC port.