Administrator Guide

NOTE: When changing a "service-queue" configuration in a QoS policy map, all QoS rules are deleted and re-added
automatically to ensure that the order of the rules is maintained. As a result, the Matched Packets value shown in the
show qos statistics command is reset.
NOTE: To avoid issues misconfiguration causes, Dell EMC Networking recommends configuring either DCBX or Egress
QoS features, but not both simultaneously. If you enable both DCBX and Egress QoS at the same time, the DCBX
configuration is applied and unexpected behavior occurs on the Egress QoS.
Creating an Input QoS Policy
To create an input QoS policy, use the following steps.
1. Create a Layer 3 input QoS policy.
CONFIGURATION mode
qos-policy-input
Create a Layer 2 input QoS policy by specifying the keyword layer2 after the qos-policy-input command.
2. After you create an input QoS policy, do one or more of the following:
Configuring Policy-Based Rate Policing
Setting a dot1p Value for Egress Packets
Configuring Policy-Based Rate Policing
To configure policy-based rate policing, use the following command.
• Configure rate police ingress traffic.
QOS-POLICY-IN mode
rate-police
Setting a dot1p Value for Egress Packets
To set a dot1p value for egress packets, use the following command.
• Set a dscp or dot1p value for egress packets.
QOS-POLICY-IN mode
set mac-dot1p
Creating an Output QoS Policy
To create an output QoS policy, use the following commands.
1. Create an output QoS policy.
CONFIGURATION mode
qos-policy-output
2. After you configure an output QoS policy, do one or more of the following:
Scheduler Strict — Policy-based Strict-priority Queueing configuration is done through scheduler strict. It is applied to Qos-policy-
output. When scheduler strict is applied to multiple Queues, high queue number takes precedence.
Allocating Bandwidth to Queue
Specifying WRED Drop Precedence
Configuring Policy-Based Rate Shaping
To configure policy-based rate shaping, use the following command.
• Configure rate shape egress traffic.
QOS-POLICY-OUT mode
rate-shape
Allocating Bandwidth to Queue
The switch schedules packets for egress based on Deficit Round Robin (DRR). This strategy offers a guaranteed data rate.
Allocate bandwidth to queues only in terms of percentage in 4-queue and 8-queue systems. The following table shows the default
bandwidth percentage for each queue.
Quality of Service (QoS)
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