HP 2G PCI-X 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and Gigabit EthernetPerformanceUsing the H - Page 5

PCI-X 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet Performance Test Results PCI-X 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet Performance Test Results The Gigabit Ethernet port performance on the A9782A and A9784A was measured with the following traffic types: • Transmit (Tx) using netperf with socket size of 128K bytes and message size of 32K bytes • Receive (Rx) using netperf with socket size of 128K bytes and message size of 32K bytes • Bidirectional (BD) running the Tx and Rx tests concurrently The Fibre Channel port performance on the A9782A and A9784A was measured with the following traffic types: • Read (Rd) using diskbench with block size of 128K bytes • Write (Wr) using diskbench with block size of 128K bytes • Bidirectional (BD) running the Rd and Wr tests concurrently The following charts show the overall performance of one PCI-X multi-function 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet adapter in each 1, 2, or 4-cell, 16-way rp8400 with Server Expansion Unit (SEU). In the enclosed charts: • the Gigabit Ethernet throughput numbers are shown in Megabits per second, and • the Fibre Channel throughput numbers are shown in Megabytes per second. For each measured traffic type (for example, GigE Tx), the results for that traffic type are shown alongside a comparison of that traffic type when running in conjunction with the adjacent port running in bidirectional mode (for example, GigE Tx plus Fibre Channel bidirectional). These comparisons basically show a single port compared to both ports operating at the same time. The results of PCI-66 testing are also described though not shown in graphs. The following charts can be used to compare performance when 1, 2, and 4 cells are configured per partition. 5