The Quality of service (QoS) policy can be configured to implement network traffic prioritization based on the importance of the connected network; for example, you can implement different QoS policies for application traffic and management traffic. In the following example, we will configure a QoS policy with platinum priority with the help of the following steps:
- Log in to UCS Manager.
- Click to expand the LAN tab in the navigation pane.
- Click on the Policies tab and expand root.
- Right-click on QoS Policies, and on the pop-up menu that appears, click on Create QoS Policy:
- Assign a name to the QoS policy.
- Select Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze for vNIC priorities but do not select Best Effort which is reserved. Select FC for Fibre Channel vHBAs.
- Burst (Bytes) determines the traffic burst size. The default is 1040, the minimum is 0, and the maximum is 65535.
- The Rate field determines the average rate of traffic, and the default is line-rate, which should not be changed.
- The Host Control field defines whether UCS controls the class of service or no; if checked the end host provides CoS values:
