HP A7173A PCI-X Dual Channel Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Performance White Paper for HP PA-RISC Servers

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Test Details
The performance results presented in this paper were obtained with one A7173A dual-channel
Ultra320 SCSI adapter, and one A6829A dual channel Ultra160 SCSI adapter install in a single HP rp4440
PA-RISC Server.
Products Used in Testing
products used for performance measurement
HP 9000 rp4440 PA-RISC Server
• Single PA-8880 Dual-Core
Processor
• A7173A U320 SCSI Driver
(Version B.11.11.01)
• 2GB System Memory
• HP-UX 11.11
A7173A HBA
• PCI-X dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI
Adapter
• 33/66/100/133 MHz-64bit PCI or
PCI-X Capable
• Firmware Version: 1.03.35.64
A6829A HBA
• PCI-X dual-channel Ultra160 SCSI
Adapter
• 33/66 MHz-64bit PCI-X Capable
Software
Diskbench (DB) is the I/O performance
testing application which generated all
test results. HP’s GlancePlus
performance measurement tool was
used to gather all CPU Utilization results.
MSA30 SB
HP MSA30 SB SCSI Disk Storage Unit
• 13-disks per MSA30 SB
• All disks used in the test
environment were HP 15K RPM
U320 SCSI hard disks.
• Single-Bus
DB Glanc