Quality of Service (QoS): Managing Bandwidth More Effectively

Preparation for Configuring QoS

2.Use the show qos commands to identify the currently configured QoS policies.

3.Determine which of the existing policies you can remove to free up rule resources for the QoS policy you want to implement. Depending on your network topology and configuration, you can free up rule resources by moving some policies to other devices. Another alternative is to inspect the switch’s existing QoS configuration for unnecessary entries or ineffi­ cient applications that could be removed or revised to achieve the desired policies with less resource usage. Table 6-8 on page 6-15, or the informa­ tion displayed by the qos resources help command, can help you to deter­ mine the resource usage of QoS policies.

Examples of QoS Resource Usage

Demonstrating Differing Resource Usage on Different Ports.

Suppose that VLANs 111 and 222 on a switch are configured for VLAN QoS. Ports 1 and 2 belong to both VLANs. Ports 3 and 4 belong only to VLAN 222. Also, device-priority QoS is configured for five IP addresses.

ProCurve(config)# qos device-priority 10.10.10.150 priority 6 ProCurve(config)# qos device-priority 10.10.10.153 priority 6 ProCurve(config)# qos device-priority 10.10.10.155 priority 6 ProCurve(config)# qos device-priority 10.10.10.157 priority 6 ProCurve(config)# qos device-priority 10.10.10.159 priority 6 ProCurve(config)# vlan 111 qos priority 3 ProCurve(config)# vlan 222 qos priority 5

ProCurve(config)# show qos resources

QoS Resource Usage

Type

 

Rules

 

Rules

 

Resources

 

Resources

Used

Maximum Used

Required

interface/Vlan-----------------

-----2

-------127

---------1

--------1

type-of-service

0

64

0

1

dev-pri/L4-port

10

128

1

1

2 of 3 QoS resources used

All ports are configured for five QoS device priorities.

VLANs 111and 222 are configured for VLAN QoS priority.

Two rules are used for each device-priority assigned., resulting in 10 rules used. One resource is required and used.

One rule is used for each VLAN priority assigned, resulting in 2 rules used. One resource is required and used.

Figure 6-4. Example of QoS Resource Usage with Device-Priority and VLAN QoS

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