Test Details: Test Configuration - HP 2G Using Manual

Test Details
Table 1 Products Used in the Performance Measurement Tests
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Benchmark software
for Gigabit Ethernet
tests
Benchmark software
for Fibre Channel tests

Test Details: Test Configuration

The test configuration consists of a 16-way (750 MHz) rp8400 with Server Expansion Unit
(SEU) cabinet with 16 Gigabytes of system memory and one A9782A PCI-X 2 Gigabit Fibre
Channel and Gigabit Ethernet adapter. The single adapter performance was then
measured in a system configured with 1 cell per partition, 2 cells per partition, and 4 cells
per partition. The A9782A /A9784A are 3.3 volt adapters "keyed" so that they only fit in
the correct system slots. The PCI-X slots in the system under test and in all rp8400s are the
slots located in the rp8400 Server Expansion Unit (SEU) not the base rp8400 system. The
slots labelled 1 through 6 in each of the two card cages of the base system are PCI 3.3 volt
slots. Slots 7 and 8 in the base system are PCI 5 volt slots, and these adapters cannot be
used in 5 volt slots. All 16 of the slots in the SEU cabinet are PCI-X slots.
The Gigabit Ethernet test load was generated by connecting the Gigabit Ethernet port on
the adapter in the rp8400 SEU to one HP 9304M Procurve Routing Switch. Four 2-way
j6000 each containing a single PCI 1000Base-SX adapter were connected to the switch.
The Fibre Channel test load was generated by connecting the Fibre Channel port on the
adapter in the rp8400 SEU to a Brocade
Systems capable of handling 2Gbyte/s Fibre Channel were evenly connected to the switch.
The switch ports were configured as QuickLoop (QL) to emulate a private loop.
NOTES:
The networking and I/O performance of the A9782A is identical to the A9784A.
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The observed performance results are consistent across all of the same type of I/O slots
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of the system.
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Netperf is the benchmark
software suite that generated
LAN traffic for the Gigabit
Ethernet performance tests. For
more information about netperf
or to get a free copy of netperf,
go to http://www.netperf.org
Diskbench (db) is the benchmark
suite that generated disk read
and write traffic for the FC tests.
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Fibre Channel switch. Four HP DS2405 Disk