Performance and Recommended Use of AD222A, AD393A, and AD221A PCIe Combination 4-Gbit/s Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet Cards

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Test Setup
Table 3 summarizes products used to measure the performance.
Table 3 Products Used in the Performance Measurement Tests
Server Tested
HP Integrity rx6600 Server.
Four 1.6 GHz Itanium2 CPUs
18 MB cache per CPU
Operating System - HP-UX 11i version
3.0 of March 2008 (B.11.31.0803).
Card Tested
AD222A HP PCIe 2p 4Gb FC AND
2p 1000BT Adptr
• PCIe x8 Gen1
• GigE LAN Driver version –
IEther-00 B.11.31.0803
• Fibre Channel Driver version –
Fibre Channel-02 B.11.31.0803
Clients generating the
test load for Gigabit
Ethernet
Two rx2600 servers
• Two, 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium2 CPUs
each
• HP-UX 11i
version (B.11.23.0303.4)
• One A7012A PCI-X 1000Base-T
card per rx2600
• LAN Driver version – IEther-00
B.11.23.05
SANBlaze VirtualLUN
Fibre Channel Target
Emulator with 4 Tar
g
et
Ports
SANBlaze Fibre Channel target
emulators. Each Fibre Channel Port of
AD222 card is connected with a
SANBlaze Emulator through a Fibre
Channel switch.
• 4 Target Ports
• 8 Luns Per Target Port
http://www.sanblaze.com/media/pdf
/
SANBlaze_VirtuaLUN_datasheet.pdf
Benchmark software
for Gigabit Ethernet
tests
Netperf 2.2pl4 is the benchmarking
software suite that generated LAN and
disk traffic performance tests. For more
information about netperf or to get a
free copy, go to
http://www.neperf.org