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

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Performance Summary
The AD222A card provides excellent performance when used in accordance with the
recommendations in this paper. Figure 5 summarizes the performance results possible
when many different types of traffic combinations are used with the recommended
models.
The graph shows the average sustained throughput relative to link rate measured on:
• 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 2 Fibre Channel ports
• A mix of 1 Fibre channel port and 1 Gigabit Ethernet port
• A mix of 2 Fibre channel ports and 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
The AD222A has very good performance. Averages range from 99.5% -100% of link rate
on the rx6600 system with different combinations of traffic types. The summary includes
results for all 4 ports running sustained simultaneous traffic!
Many of the different types of traffic combinations achieve link rate and will be discussed
in more detail later in the document.
Figure 5 :
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D222A Performance Summary in rx6600
99.7%
99.5%
100%
99.6%
99.2%
99.4%
99.6%
99.8%
100.0%
100.2%
2 GigE 2 FC 1 FC / 1 GigE 2 FC / 2 GigE
Number of Ports
Average Percentage of Unidirectional Link Rate