• Configure a port connected to a Dell Compellent storage array.
INTERFACE Configuration mode
iscsi profile-compellent
The command configures a port for the best iSCSI traffic conditions.
The following message displays the first time you use the iscsi profile-compellent command to
configure a port connected to a Dell Compellent storage array and describes the configuration changes
that are automatically performed:
%SYSTEM:CP %IFMGR-5-IFM_ISCSI_AUTO_CONFIG: This switch is being configured for
optimal conditions to support iSCSI traffic which will cause some automatic
configuration to occur including jumbo frames and flow-control on all ports; no
storm control and spanning-tree port fast to be enabled on the port of
detection.
After you execute the iscsi profile-compellent command, the following actions occur:
• MTU is set to 1200 for all interfaces on all ports and port-channels, if it is not already enabled.
• Spanning-tree portfast is enabled on the interface.
• Unicast storm control is disabled on the interface.
Enter the iscsi profile-compellent command in INTERFACE Configuration mode; for example:
Dell(conf-if-te-o/50)# iscsi profile-compellent
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Traffic Flows
You can configure iSCSI CoS mode. This mode controls whether CoS (dot1p priority) queue assignment
and/or packet marking is performed on iSCSI traffic.
When you enable iSCSI CoS mode, the CoS policy is applied to iSCSI traffic. When you disable iSCSI CoS
mode, iSCSI sessions and connections are still detected and displayed in the status tables, but no CoS
policy is applied to iSCSI traffic.
You can configure whether the iSCSI optimization feature uses the VLAN priority or IP DSCP mapping to
determine the traffic class queue. By default, iSCSI flows are assigned to dot1p priority 4. To map
incoming iSCSI traffic on an interface to a dot1p priority-queue other than 4, use the CoS dot1p-
priority command (refer to QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue Assignment). Dell Networking
recommends setting the CoS dot1p priority-queue to 0 (zero).
You can configure whether iSCSI frames are re-marked to contain the configured VLAN priority tag or IP
DSCP when forwarded through the switch.
NOTE: On a switch in which a large proportion of traffic is iSCSI, CoS queue assignments may
interfere with other network control-plane traffic, such as ARP or LACP. Balance preferential
treatment of iSCSI traffic against the needs of other critical data in the network.
iSCSI Optimization 487