Appendix C: Netbench Test Methodology - HP ML570 - ProLiant - G2 Tuning Manual

Novell NetWare 6 performance tuning guidelines for ProLiant servers
appendix c:
NetBench test
methodology
The performance results presented in this section of the document are based on the current
version of NetBench 7.0.2. NetBench is a licensed Ziff-Davis media benchmark program
that measures the performance of file servers as they handle network file I/O requests from
LAN attached clients. It uses LAN attached clients to generate file I/O requests to a server.
The throughput scores and the average response time performance metrics are used to
gauge how well the server can handle file I/O requests from clients. For more information
on NetBench, visit the website at
www.netbench.com/benchmarks/netbench/netbench.asp?visitor=X.
The Enterprise version of the standard test (ent_dm_nb702) was executed on sixty clients.
The local operating system (LOS) on all clients was Windows 2000 (SP2). The clients were
connected to the two switches through 100 MB/s full duplex connections to two Anritsu
multiflow 5048 switches. The two switches were configured as two separate LAN segments
(30 clients per LAN segment). Next, the ProLiant ML570 G2 server was connected to each
of the switches with a CAT5 cable to form the two LAN segments. Refer to server and test-
bed tables for detailed information about the server, client, and the test-bed.
The executions of the Enterprise version of the NetBench standard test suites start with a
single client issuing requests and increments the client workload by four until the number of
clients issuing the requests reaches sixty.
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