Service Manual

Table Of Contents
Enhanced Transmission Selection..............................................................................................275
Data Center Bridging Exchange Protocol (DCBx)..................................................................... 276
Data Center Bridging in a Traffic Flow....................................................................................... 277
Enabling Data Center Bridging......................................................................................................... 277
DCB Maps and its Attributes....................................................................................................... 278
Data Center Bridging: Default Configuration.................................................................................. 279
Configuring Priority-Based Flow Control........................................................................................ 279
Configuring Lossless Queues.....................................................................................................280
Configuring PFC in a DCB Map........................................................................................................282
PFC Configuration Notes............................................................................................................282
PFC Prerequisites and Restrictions.............................................................................................283
Applying a DCB Map on a Port.........................................................................................................283
Configuring PFC without a DCB Map..............................................................................................284
Configuring Lossless QueuesExample:......................................................................................284
Priority-Based Flow Control Using Dynamic Buffer Method..........................................................286
Pause and Resume of Traffic......................................................................................................286
Buffer Sizes for Lossless or PFC Packets....................................................................................287
Behavior of Tagged Packets.............................................................................................................287
Configuration Example for DSCP and PFC Priorities...................................................................... 288
Using PFC to Manage Converged Ethernet Traffic......................................................................... 289
Configure Enhanced Transmission Selection................................................................................. 289
ETS Prerequisites and Restrictions.............................................................................................289
Creating an ETS Priority Group.................................................................................................. 289
ETS Operation with DCBx...........................................................................................................291
Configuring Bandwidth Allocation for DCBx CIN......................................................................291
Configuring ETS in a DCB Map...................................................................................................292
Hierarchical Scheduling in ETS Output Policies..............................................................................294
Using ETS to Manage Converged Ethernet Traffic..........................................................................294
Applying DCB Policies in a Switch Stack......................................................................................... 294
Configure a DCBx Operation........................................................................................................... 295
DCBx Operation..........................................................................................................................295
DCBx Port Roles..........................................................................................................................295
DCB Configuration Exchange.................................................................................................... 297
Configuration Source Election................................................................................................... 297
Propagation of DCB Information............................................................................................... 298
Auto-Detection and Manual Configuration of the DCBx Version............................................298
DCBx Example............................................................................................................................ 299
DCBx Prerequisites and Restrictions..........................................................................................299
Configuring DCBx.......................................................................................................................300
Verifying the DCB Configuration..................................................................................................... 304
QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue Assignment................................................................315
Configuring the Dynamic Buffer Method.........................................................................................317
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