Gigabit Ethernet Cards

ManualsBrandsHP ManualsNetwork HardwareHP PCI-X 266MHz 10Gb Ethernet SR Multi-OS Card

July 2007

Table of Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................... 3

Recommended Use Based on Performance and Design ........................................ 4

Performance Summary .................................................................................... 5

Gigabit Ethernet Only Performance ................................................................... 6

Fibre Channel Only Performance ...................................................................... 7

1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance ..................................... 8

Comparison of AD194A to AB465A for 1 FC Port and

1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance ......................................................... 9

2 FC Ports and 2 GbE Ports Combined Traffic Performance ................................ 10

Bidirectional Traffic Performance ..................................................................... 10

How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel Efficiency ....................................... 11

Features and Benefits of the AD194A ............................................................... 13

For More Information ..................................................................................... 13

Performance and Recommended Use of

AD193A / AD194A Combination

4-Gbps Fibre Channel / Gigabit Ethernet Cards

From Results on an HP rx6600 Server

Summary of content (13 pages)

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Performance and Recommended Use of AD193A / AD194A Combination 4-Gbps Fibre Channel / Gigabit Ethernet Cards From Results on an HP rx6600 Server July 2007 Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................... 3 Recommended Use Based on Performance and Design ........................................ 4 Performance Summary ....................................................................................
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Introduction Introduction This article highlights the excellent performance and high availability of HP’s new AD193A and AD194A multi-function cards. The AD194A (Figure 1) combines 2-ports for 4Gbps Fibre Channel mass storage and 2 ports for Gigabit Ethernet networking. The AD193A (Figure 1) combines 1-port for 4Gbps Fibre Channel mass storage and 1 port for Gigabit Ethernet networking. Performance numbers for the AD193A are equivalent to single port numbers for the AD194A.
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Recommended Use Based on Performance and Design Recommended Use Based on Performance and Design The AD194A can be thought of as a combination of an HP AB379B 2-port 4Gbps Fibre Channel card connected by a PCI-X to PCI-X bridge with an A7012A 2-port 1000Base-T card and sharing a common PCI-X bus. All the connections sharing this single common resource perform exceptionally well in a variety of configurations.
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Performance Summary Performance Summary The AD194A card provides excellent performance when used in accordance with the recommendations in this paper. Figure 3 summarizes the performance results possible when many different types of traffic combinations are used with the recommended models. Figure 3 100.0% AD194A Performance Summary in rx6600 99.7% 96.3% Average Percentage of Unidirectional Link Rate 90.0% 80.0% 80.2% 70.0% 60.0% 57.9% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.
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Gigabit Ethernet Only Performance Gigabit Ethernet Only Performance Figure 4 shows the performance results of the Gigabit Ethernet ports when unidirectional Gigabit Ethernet traffic using a standard 1500-byte MTU is being run through the card.
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Fibre Channel Only Performance Fibre Channel Only Performance Figure 5 shows the performance results for the 4Gb Fibre Channel ports when unidirectional disk traffic is being run through the card.
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1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance 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 4Gb Fibre Channel port and one 1000Base-T port on the AD193A or AD194A card.
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Comparison of AD194A to AB465A for 1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance Comparison of AD194A to AB465A for 1 FC Port and 1 GbE Port Combined Traffic Performance Figure 7 shows the performance results when a mix of unidirectional traffic is run simultaneously through one Fibre Channel port and one 1000Base-T port on the AD194A and AB465A card.
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2 FC Ports and 2 GbE Ports Combined Traffic Performance 2 FC Ports and 2 GbE Ports Combined Traffic Performance Using both 4Gb Fibre Channel ports and both 1000Base-T ports on the AD194A card simultaneously works very well for applications such as web servers or file servers. The amount of networking traffic performed by this type of application regulates or controls the amount of disk traffic.
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How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel Efficiency How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel Efficiency This article highlights the AD194A and AD193A throughput. Throughput is the data transfer rate, or data rate -- the amount of time it takes data to move from one place to another. In this article, it’s shown for one-way signals as well as 2-way. Throughput measures how well programs run with a certain workload and how quickly user requests can be handled.
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How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel Efficiency Table 1 Products Used in the Performance Measurement Tests Server Tested HP Integrity rx6600 Server. Four 1.6 GHz Itanium2 CPUs (2 cores each) 9MB cache per CPU Operating System - HP-UX 11i version 3.0 of January 2007 (B.11.31). Card Tested AD194A 2-Port 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel and 2-Port Gigabit Ethernet card • PCI-X (64-bit, 133 MHz, 3.3v) • GigE LAN Driver version – IEther-00 B.11.31.01 • Fibre Channel Driver version -FibrChanl-01 B.11.31.
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Features and Benefits of the AD194A Features and Benefits of the AD194A Features and benefits of the AD194A 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.
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