BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide

If PGID 15 has low traffic levels, most of the switch’s bandwidth will be available to serve priority groups 0 through 7. However, if PGID 15 consumes a larger part of the switch’s total bandwidth, the amount available to the other groups is reduced.

Note – Consider traffic load when assigning priority values to PGID 15. Heavy traffic in this group may restrict the bandwidth available to other groups.

Configuring ETS

Consider an example consistent with that used for port-based PFC configuration (on page 202):

Table 19 ETS Configuration

Priority

Usage

PGID

Bandwidth

 

 

 

 

0

LAN (best effort delivery)

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

LAN (best effort delivery)

2

10%

 

 

 

 

2

LAN (best effort delivery)

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

SAN (Fibre Channel over Ethernet, with PFC)

3

20%

 

 

 

 

4

Business Critical LAN (lossless Ethernet, with PFC)

4

30%

 

 

 

 

5

Latency-sensitive LAN

5

40%

 

 

6

Latency-sensitive LAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

Network Management (strict)

15

unlimited

 

 

 

 

The example shown in Table 19 is only slightly different than the default configuration shown in Figure 23 on page 205. In this example, latency-sensitive LAN traffic (802.1p priority 5 through 6) are moved from priority group 4 to priority group 5. This leaves Business Critical LAN traffic (802.1p priority 4) in priority group 4 by itself. Also, a new group for network management traffic has been assigned. Finally, the bandwidth allocation for priority groups 3, 4, and 5 are revised.

Note – DCBX may be configured to permit sharing or learning PFC configuration with or from external devices. This example assumes that PFC configuration is being performed manually. See “Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange” on page 211 for more information on DCBX.

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G8124-E, G8124 specifications

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