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Figure 23. Guaranteeing equally balanced bandwidth in a VRRP environment

Connection choices are also important where equally balanced bandwidth is needed, such as in a Virtual

Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) application. This scenario is illustrated in the next figure.

Throughput and latency performance data

The following three tables describe the performance capabilities of the 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, and 100 Mbps line

interface module ports of the HP ProCurve Switch 8200zl, 5400zl, 3500, and 6200yl series.

Over a range of packet sizes from 64 bytes to 1518 bytes, the performance levels achieved are described in

terms of the following metrics:

•ThroughputlevelpercentageachievedwhenperformingLayer2switchingandLayer3routing;100%inall

cases

•ThroughputintheformofthenumberofpacketspersecondwhenperformingLayer2switchingandLayer3

routing

•Averageper-packetlatencyinmicrosecondswhenperformingLayer2switchingandLayer3routing.These

values shown are listed for both First In First Out (FIFO) and Last In First Out (LIFO) processing. The LIFO

values represent the packet transmit time, whereas the FIFO values include the switch decision time and the

packet transmit time.

•Percentageofpacketsdroppedinafullmeshconfiguration;0%inallcases

The following measurements were performed by HP ProCurve using test equipment manufactured by Ixia

Communications (www.ixiacom.com). In these tests, the maximum number of supported ports on the HP

ProCurve Switch 5412zl was used. Proportional performance results at 100% of throughput are achieved on

the HP ProCurve Switch 8200zl, 5406zl, 3500-24, 3500-48, 3500-24-PoE, 3500-48-PoE, 3500yl-24G-PWR,

3500yl-48G-PWR, and 6200yl-24G-mGBIC for the maximum number of ports supported by each of those

models. The 100 Mbps table is not applicable to the HP ProCurve Switch 6200yl-24G-mGBIC, because

only 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit ports are supported. The 10 Gbps table is not applicable to the

HP ProCurve 3500-24, 3500-48, 3500-24-PoE, and 3500-48-PoE switches, because only 10/100 and

1 Gigabit ports are supported.

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