Performance and Recommended Use of AD193A / AD194A Combination 4-Gbps Fibre Channel / Gigabit Ethernet Cards

How We Measured GbE and Fibre Channel Efficiency
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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.11.31.01
Clients generating
the test load for
Gigabit Ethernet
Two 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
150 0 c s M o dular Smart
Array
Sixteen MSA 1500cs 2Gb/s FC disk
systems with a mix of drives for Fibre
Channel tests.
Benchmark software
for Gigabit Ethernet
tests
Netperf4+ is the benchmarking
software suite that generated LAN
and disk traffic for the performance
tests. For more information about
netperf or to get a free copy, go to
http://www.netperf.org
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