Performance and Recommended Use of AD385A 10 Gigabit Ethernet SR Cards

How We Measured 10 Gigabit Ethernet Efficiency
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Table 2
Products Used in the Performance Measurement
Tests
Servers Tested
rx8640 Server. 2-cell configuration.
Eight 1.6 GHz CPU Itanium2
dual-core processors with 18 MB
cache
Four sockets per cell
System Memory: 32GB. Eight DIMM
slots in each of the cells were
populated.
Operating System - HP-UX 11i v3 of
Sep 2007 (B.11.31.0709).
Cards Tested AD385A PCI-X 266MHz 10 Gigabit
Ethernet card
• PCI-X (64-bit, 266MHz, 3.3v)
• 10GigE LAN Driver (ixgbe) version:
10 G i g E t h r- 0 0 B .11.31.0712
Clients generating
the test load for 10
Gigabit Ethernet
Four rx2660 servers, each with:
• Two, 1.6 GHz Itanium2 CPUs
• HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11. 23 .0712 )
• AD385A PCI-X 10 Gigabit card
• 10 GigE LAN Driver (ixgbe)
version B.11. 2 3. 0712
Two rx2600 servers, each with
• Two, 1.5GHz Itanium2 CPUs
• HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11. 23 .0712 )
• AD385A PCI-X 10 Gigabit card
• 10 GigE LAN Driver (ixgbe)
version B.11. 2 3. 0712
Benchmark software
for 10 Gigabit
Ethernet tests
Netperf 2.4.3 is the benchmarking
software suite that generated LAN
and disk traffic for the 10 Gigabit
Ethernet performance tests. For more
information about netperf or to get a
free copy, go to
http://www.netperf.org