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A.6 VLAN management and automated QoS
In addition to being able to assign VLANs to server profiles, SmartFabric automates QoS settings based on
the Network Type specified. Figure 59 shows that when defining a VLAN, one of 11 options are pre-defined.
Each of these options represents a queue.
QoS options available in SmartFabric mode
Table 9 lists the network types and related settings. The QoS group is the numerical value for the queues
available in SmartFabric mode. Available queues include 2 through 5. Queues 1, 6, and 7 are reserved.
Note: In SmartFabric mode, an administrator cannot change the default weights for the queues.
Network types and default QoS settings
Network Type
Description
QoS Group
General Purpose (Bronze)
Used for low priority data traffic
2
General Purpose (Silver)
Used for standard/default priority data traffic
3
General Purpose (Gold)
Used for high priority data traffic
4
General Purpose (Platinum)
Used for extremely high priority data traffic
5
Cluster Interconnect
Used for cluster heartbeat VLANs
5
Hypervisor Management
Used for hypervisor management connections such as the
ESXi management VLAN
5
Storage - iSCSI
Used for iSCSI VLANs
5
Storage - FCoE
Used for FCoE VLANs
5
Storage - Data Replication
Used for VLANs supporting storage data replication such
as for VMware VSAN
5
VM Migration
Used for VLANs supporting vMotion and similar
technologies
5
VMware FT Logging
Used for VLANs supporting VMware Fault Tolerance
5