Users Guide

and a lower priority for other services, such as file transfers. You can configure the amount of buffer
space for each priority and the pause or resume thresholds for the buffer. This method of configuration
enables you to manage and administer the behavior of lossless queues.
Example for
Configuration
Mode
Dell(conf)# dcb-policy buffer-threshold stack-unit all stack-ports all test
Example for
Interface Mode
Dell(conf-if-te-1/1)# dcb-policy buffer-threshold test
show qos dcb-buffer-threshold
Displays the DCB buffer threshold assigned to a QoS policy.
Syntax
show qos dcb buffer-threshold {name}
Parameters
name Enter the name of the profile, which can be a string of up to 32 characters in
length.
Command Modes
EXEC
EXEC Privilege
Usage
Information
The following table describes the output fields displayed for the show command:
Field Description
Name Name of the DCB buffer threshold profile
Buffer threshold
parameters
Buffer size allocated for the PFC priority queue and the priority of the queue
Example
Dell# show qos dcb buffer-threshold
Name : test1
Buffer threshold parameters:
pfc priority 0 buffer-size 40
pfc priority 3 buffer-size 50
Command
History
This guide is platform-specific. For command information about other platforms, see the relevant Dell
Networking OS Command Line Reference Guide.
Version Description
9.7(0.0) Introduced on the S6000-ON and Z9500.
9.3(0.0) Introduced on the S6000 platform.
dcb pfc-total-buffer-size
Configure the total buffer size for PFC in kilobytes.
Syntax
dcb pfc-total—buffer—size KB
Parameters
KB Enter a number in the range of 0 to 7787.
Default The default is 6592KB.
Command Modes CONFIGURATION mode
428 Data Center Bridging (DCB)