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Disable Trac Filtering and Marking on a Distributed Port or Uplink Port
Disable the traffic filtering and marking policy on a port to let traffic flow to a virtual machine or a physical
adapter without filtering for security or marking for QoS.
Prerequisites
To override a policy on distributed port level, enable the port-level override option for this policy. See
Configure Overriding Networking Policies on Port Level.
Procedure
1 Navigate to a distributed switch and then navigate to a distributed port or an uplink port.
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To navigate to the distributed ports of the switch, click Networks > Distributed Port Groups,
double-click a distributed port group from the list, and click the Ports tab.
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To navigate to the uplink ports of an uplink port group, click Networks > Uplink Port Groups,
double-click an uplink port group from the list, and click the Ports tab.
2 Select a port from the list.
3 Click Edit distributed port settings.
4 Select Traffic filtering and marking.
5 Click Override, and from the Status drop-down menu, select Disabled.
6 Click OK.
Qualifying Trac for Filtering and Marking
The traffic that you want to filter or want to mark with QoS tags can be matched to the type of carried
infrastructure data, such as data for storage, vCenter Server management, and so on, and to Layer 2 and
Layer 3 properties.
To match the traffic in the scope of the rule more precisely, you can combine criteria for system data type,
Layer 2 header, and Layer 3 header.
System Trac Qualifier
By using the system traffic qualifier in a rule for port group or port, you can determine whether certain
system data traffic must be marked with a QoS tag, allowed, or dropped.
System Trac Type
You can select the type of traffic through the ports of the group that carries system data, that is, traffic for
management from vCenter Server , storage, VMware vSphere
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vMotion
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, and vSphere Fault Tolerance.
You can mark or filter only a specific traffic type, or for all system data traffic except for a infrastructure
feature. For example, you can mark with a QoS value or filter the traffic for management from
vCenter Server , storage and vMotion, but not the traffic carrying the Fault Tolerance data.
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