Traffic Classes

A traffic class allows you to categorize packets requiring similar traffic management.

The following table describes the columns on the traffic class screen. Clicking another link in the pull-down menu or left navigation tree causes current edits that have not been applied to be lost.

Item

Description

 

 

Name

Name of the traffic class.

 

 

Real Time

One user-defined class can be designated as real time. Traffic from this class has the

 

highest priority and is scheduled in strict priority order. The Share and Max Share for

 

the Real Time class must be equal, and should be less than or equal to 50.

 

 

Share

Minimum guaranteed bandwidth that each traffic class gets. The sum of shares of all

 

enabled classes and the Best_Effort class equals 100.

 

 

Max Share

Maximum share that the traffic class can use when other traffic classes are not using

 

their maximum share. The FCoE-Lossless class gets its maximum share from fabric

 

speed settings.

 

 

Egress DOT1P Priority

The egress dot1p priority marking applied on the VLAN tag.

Enabled

The FCoE Lossless and Best_Effort classes are enabled by default. Other classes are

 

enabled if the checkbox in the Enabled column is selected.

 

 

Reset QoS

Click Reset, and then click Apply.

configuration to default

IMPORTANT: Clicking Reset, and then clicking Apply resets the values on both the

values

Traffic Class and Ingress Traffic Classification tabs to the default values for active and

 

inactive configurations.

The following table lists the available actions from this screen:

Action

Description

 

 

 

 

Edit the name of a traffic class

Click on the name of the traffic class, edit the name, and then

 

 

click Apply.

 

 

 

 

Designate a traffic class as real time

Select the checkbox in the Real Time column of the class. If a

 

 

class is already designated as Real Time, unselect that

 

 

checkbox, and then select the checkbox in the Real Time column

 

 

of the new class. If necessary, adjust the numbers in the Share

 

 

and Max Share columns. These numbers must be equal, and

 

 

cannot be more than 50.

 

 

 

 

 

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