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180 Evs Server Iron XL
180 Evs Server Iron XL
Test Objectives
Use a network design simulating a Real World
configuration to demonstrate performance and
scalability and determine:
• The number of requests per second per port that
the device under test (DUT) supports with no loss
• The total number of concurrent connections
supported per port and for the DUT as a whole
with no loss
The higher reported value equals more serviced
customers…key to E*commerce.
Internet Servers
Device Under Test
Test Configuration
Layer 2
8 Clients per L2 Switch Switch
Device 16 Servers
L2
Under Divided into
Switch
Test six VLANs
8 Clients per L2 Switch Layer 2
Switch
Two 100 Mb/s Full Duplex Six 100 Mb/s Full Duplex
(each link represents a group of 8 clients) (each link represents a VLAN)
70,000
60,916
60,000
50,000
Sessions/sec
40,000
25,600
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Foundry Networks ServerIron Alteon Web Switch 180e
In this test, Layer 2 switches acted as traffic aggregators for the Layer 4 switch under test
80,000
70,000 71,229
60,000
Sessions/sec
50,000
47,764
40,000
30,000
24,093 24,000
20,000
10,000 16,000
8,000
0
1 Network Port, 1 2 Network Ports, 2 3 Network Ports, 3
Server Port Server Ports Server Ports
1,200,000
1,000,000 1,000,000
TCP Sessions Established
1,000,000
800,000
600,000
400,000
200,000
32,000 64,000
0
Aggregate Sessions Aggregate Sessions, 2
Established, 1 Network Port Network Ports