Performance and Recommended Use of AD193A / AD194A Combination 4-Gbps Fibre Channel / 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 4Gb Fibre Channel port and one 1000Base-T port on the
AD193A or AD194A card.
The following highlights show the exceptional performance the AD194A achieved during
combination traffic testing:
Figure 6
AD194A Throughput with 1 Fibre Channel and 1 GbE
• The first two dark bars show disk read traffic consistently achieved greater than 95% of
link rate on the rx6600 system. The active port achieved 392 MB/s or greater 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 95% of link rate on
the rx6600 system. The active FC port achieved 393 MB/s 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 rx6600
reaching 946 megabits of application data per second for transmit and 947 megabits
per second for receive traffic on the 1000 Base-T port. This was while continuous disk
traffic was occurring on the active FC port.
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