Performance and Recommended Use of AD385A 10 Gigabit Ethernet SR Cards

Introduction
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Introduction
The availability of next generation 10 Gigabit devices makes deployment of 10 Gigabit
Ethernet even more attractive. 10 Gigabit is ideal for data center deployment and can
provide up to ten times the performance of 1 Gigabit Ethernet at approximately four times
the cost. 10 Gigabit Ethernet can free up I/O slots and enable server consolidation in
deployments where I/O slot availability is a limiting factor. 10 Gigabit also provides
increased performance and flexibility for server virtualization. Please refer to the document
10 Gigabit Ethernet in Servers: Benefits and Challenges available in the Information library
under http://www.hp.com
for more information on 10 Gigabit technology and deployment.
AD385A (Figure 1) is HP’s next generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter supporting PCI-X
2.0a Mode 2 (266MHz) operation. It carries forward all the salient features of the previous
10 Gigabit adapter (AB287A), including ECC protection for all internal memory and
storage. The “Features and Benefits of AD385A” section in this document provides more
details.
This document highlights the excellent performance of the AD385A. The performance
measurements were done on an HP Integrity rx8640 server.
This document also provides suggestions based on the performance and technology that will
help you to optimize the use of these products.
Figure 1
AD385A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card