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60 | Data Center Bridging (DCB)<br />

• When an ETS output policy is applied to an interface, ETS-configured scheduling and bandwidth<br />

allocation take precedence over any auto-configured settings in the QoS output policies.<br />

• ETS is enabled by default with the default ETS configuration applied (all dot1p priorities in the<br />

same group with equal bandwidth allocation).<br />

ETS Operation with DCBX<br />

In DCBX negotiation with peer ETS devices, ETS configuration is handled as follows:<br />

• ETS TLVs are supported in DCBX versions CIN, CEE, and IEEE2.5.<br />

• ETS operational parameters are determined by the DCBX port-role configurations.<br />

• ETS configurations received from TLVs from a peer are validated.<br />

• In case of a hardware limitation or TLV error:<br />

• DCBX operation on an ETS port goes down.<br />

• New ETS configurations are ignored and existing ETS configurations are reset to the previously<br />

configured ETS output policy on the port or to the default ETS settings if no ETS output policy<br />

was previously applied.<br />

• ETS operates with legacy DCBX versions as follows:<br />

• In the CEE version, the priority group/traffic class group (TCG) ID 15 represents a non-ETS<br />

priority group. Any priority group configured with a scheduler type is treated as a strict-priority<br />

group and is given the priority-group (TCG) ID 15.<br />

• The CIN version supports two types of strict-priority scheduling:<br />

— Group strict priority: Allows a single priority flow in a priority group to increase its<br />

bandwidth usage to the bandwidth total of the priority group. A single flow in a group can<br />

use all the bandwidth allocated to the group.<br />

— Link strict priority: Allows a flow in any priority group to increase to the maximum link<br />

bandwidth.<br />

CIN supports only the default dot1p priority-queue assignment in a priority group.<br />

Bandwidth Allocation for DCBX CIN<br />

After an ETS output policy is applied to an interface, if the DCBX version used in your data center<br />

network is CIN, a QoS output policy is automatically configured to overwrite the default CIN bandwidth<br />

allocation. This default setting divides the bandwidth allocated to each port queue equally between the<br />

dot1p priority traffic assigned to the queue.

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