CLI Guide

Parameters
prole-name Enter the name of the prole, which can be a string of up to 32 characters in length.
Default None
Command Modes CONFIGURATION mode
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the MXL platform.
Usage Information When you enter the prole name, you enter the DCB buer threshold conguration mode. You can specify the
shared buer threshold limit, the ingress buer size, buer limit for pausing the acceptance of packets, and the
buer oset limit for resuming the acceptance of received packets.
Example
Dell(conf)#dcb buffer—threshold test
Example of
commands in dcb
buffer—
threshold mode
qos-policy-buffer queue queue-num pause no-drop queue buffer-size size pause-
threshold threshold-value resume-offset threshold-value shared-threshold-weight
size
Dell(conf)# qos-policy-buffer test
Dell(conf-qos-policy-buffer)#queue 0 pause no-drop buffer-size
128000 pause-threshold 103360 resume-threshold 83520
Dell(conf-qos-policy-buffer)# queue 4 pause no-drop buffer-size
128000 pause-threshold 103360 resume-threshold 83520
priority value buffer-size size pause-threshold threshold-value resume-offset
threshold-value shared-threshold-weight size
Dell(conf-dcb-buffer-thr)#priority 0 buffer-size 52 pause-threshold 16 resume-
offset 10 shared-threshold-weight 7
dcb enable pfc-queues
Congure the number of PFC queues.
Syntax
dcb enable pfc-queues value
Parameters
value Enter the number of PFC queues. The range is from 1 to 4. The number of ports
supported based on lossless queues congured will depend on the buer.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION mode
Supported Modes Full–Switch
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the MXL platform.
Usage Information You can congure up to a maximum of four lossless (PFC) queues. By conguring four lossless queues, you can
congure four dierent priorities and assign a particular priority to each application that your network is used to
process. For example, you can assign a higher priority for time-sensitive applications and a lower priority for other
430 Data Center Bridging (DCB)