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

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Features and Benefits of the AD222A,
AD393A and AD221
Features and benefits of the AD222A, AD393A and AD221A 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. With VLANs, broadcasts and multicasts go only to the intended nodes in
the virtual LAN.
• Supports 16k LUNs on the Fibre Channel ports.
• Auto speed sensing on the Fibre Channel and LAN ports.
• Supports readout of Vital Product Data (VPD) for Fibre Channel and LAN.
• Supports Virtual Partitions (vPars 5.01 or higher) on specified systems. Boot over vPars
is supported on the Fibre Channel ports.
• Supports Ignite UX. Ignite-UX (IUX) is an HP-UX administration toolset to help you
install and configure (or recover) HP-UX systems.
• Supports HP Serviceguard and Auto-Port Aggregation (APA) for high availability.
• Supports PCIe online addition/replacement (OLA/R) on specified systems.
• Offline and online diagnostic tools available for both Fibre Channel and LAN.
• Excellent Performance.
For More Information
For more information about the products described in this paper such as a current list of
tested HP products or supported systems, please go to:
http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity
This paper is the latest in a series of white papers detailing the performance of HP’s link
and server products. For a complete list of white papers on HP’s networking and I/O
products including Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel solutions, go to:
http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html
For further assistance including a detailed analysis of your specific requirements and
needs, please contact your local HP Sales Representative.