Fc Switch Requirements; Ip Network Requirements; Ip Performance Tuning - HP MPX200 User Manual

FC switch requirements

For additional B-series, C-series, and H-series FC switches, local and remote MPX200 Multifunction
Router pairs must be connected to the same Fibre Channel switch product line series.
NOTE: The MPX200 Fibre Channel ports operate at 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s.

IP network requirements

HP requires that the following standards be met for the IP network:
Supported network protocols are TCP/IP IPv4 and IPv6 Ethernet 1,000 Mb/s.
For minimum IP bandwidth requirements, see
For MPX200 IP data—Local and remote pairs are supported for up to 100 ms of IP network
delay one-way, or 200 ms round-trip for HP Continuous Access. HP requires dedicated IP
bandwidth (see
For MPX200 IP management—LAN and WAN are supported.
For XP Continuous Access network requirements, see the SAN Extension chapter in the HP
StorageWorks SAN Design Reference Guide.
Table 20 Network requirements for the MPX200 with XCS and VCS
Specification
1
Bandwidth
Maximum number of DR groups
MTU of the IP network
Maximum latency
Average packet-loss ratio
3
Latency jitter
1
Pre-existing restriction
2
A high packet-loss ratio indicates the need to retransmit data across the intersite link. Each retransmission delays
transmissions queued behind the current packet, thus increasing the time to complete pending transactions.
3
Latency jitter is the difference between the minimum and maximum values, and indicates how stable or predictable the
network delay. The greater the jitter, the greater the variance in the delay, which lowers the performance predictability.

IP performance tuning

The MPX200 supports Fibre Channel service at transmission rates of 2 Gb/s, 4 Gb/s or 8 Gb/s
with a maximum frame size of 2,148 bytes. It supports Ethernet service at transmission rates of
1,000 or 100 Mb/s with an MTU size between 1,000 and 9,000 bytes (jumbo frames). Related
performance characteristics include the following:
Distance
Bandwidth per route
Latency
MTU/Jumbo frames
Compression
Table 20 (page 121)).
1
2
"Storage system rules and guidelines" (page
Description
Must be dedicated to the HP Continuous Access storage replication
Bandwidth function. There is no support for dynamic pacing of the
gateway.
See Table 19 (page 120) for minimum supported bandwidth based on
the average maximum number of DR groups packet-loss ratio and
one-way intersite latencies.
1,500 bytes
EVA: 100 ms one-way or 200 ms round-trip
Low-loss network: 0.0012% average over 24 hours
High-loss network: 0.2% average over 24 hours; must not exceed 0.5%
for more than 5 minutes in a 2-hour window
Must not exceed 10 ms over 24 hours.
120).
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