Compaq 108164-003 - ProLiant - 800 White Paper page 19

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. . Figure 6 shows the test lab configuration used for the ProLiant 7000 testing. The number of client
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systems and networks was also determined by experimentation until the CPUs were 100%
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test. There were always two networks used in the ProLiant 7000 tests.
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Table18: ProLiant 7000 Test Lab Configuration
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ILS Connect
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ILS Add
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All PS Tests
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Each of the PC client systems ran either InetLoad or WCAT, depending on the tests being done.
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They communicated with the SUT over one or two 100-BaseTX Ethernets. When running
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WCAT, the WCAT client programs communicated with the WCAT controller over the same 100-
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BaseTX Ethernet(s) used to communicate with the SUT. Using the same network for both
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controlling WCAT clients and testing the SUT does not interfere with the test measurements
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because the control communications occur only before a test starts and after it is over. There are
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no WCAT control communications during a test.
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The PC client systems were 200MHz Pentium Pro systems. All of the systems used the same
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operating system: Windows NT Server 4.0 with Service Pack 3. The SUT also had the TCP/IP
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driver hot fix from June 1997 and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) version 3.0
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installed.
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Figure 5: ProLiant 2500 Test Lab Configuration
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# of Client Systems
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# of Simulated Users and Worker Threads
per Client System
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50
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