Measurements for LAN connections on SE servers

This section analyzes the communication performance of the SE servers.

• Connection of an SE server to a customer network

• General aspects for determining the network performance

• SE700
• SE710
• SE300
• SE310
• Measurement tools for LAN connections

The following terms and abbreviations are used here:

Abbreviation	Meaning
1 GbE	Gigabit Ethernet (max. 120 MB/s per direction)
10 GbE	Gigabit Ethernet (max. 1200 MB/s per direction)
MTU	Maximum Transmission Unit
Standard frames	The MTU is 1500 bytes long
Jumbo frames	The MTU is 9000 bytes long
8GFC / 16GFC	8/16 Gigabit Fibre Channel
VCA	Virtual Channel Adapter (when using link aggregation, see the "BCAM" manual [2 (Related publications)].
1FC4VCA	Link aggregation over 4 VCAs via one FC
2FC8VCA	Link aggegation over 8 VCAs via two FCs