Configuring Detection And Ports For Dell Compellent Arrays; Application Of Quality Of Service To Iscsi Traffic Flows - Dell Z9500 Configuration Manual

The following syslog message is generated the first time an EqualLogic array is detected:
%SYSTEM:CP %LLDP-5-LLDP_EQL_DETECTED: EqualLogic Storage Array detected on interface Te 1/ 43
• At the first detection of an EqualLogic array, the maximum supported MTU is enabled on all ports and port-channels (if it
has not already been enabled).
• Spanning-tree portfast is enabled on the interface LLDP identifies.
• Unicast storm control is disabled on the interface LLDP identifies.
Configuring Detection and Ports for Dell
Compellent Arrays
To configure a port connected to a Dell Compellent storage array, use the following command.
• Configure a port connected to a Dell Compellent storage array.
INTERFACE Configuration mode
iscsi profile-compellent
The command configures a port for the best iSCSI traffic conditions.
The following message displays the first time you use the iscsi profile-compellent command to configure a port
connected to a Dell Compellent storage array and describes the configuration changes that are automatically performed:
%SYSTEM:CP %IFMGR-5-IFM_ISCSI_AUTO_CONFIG: This switch is being configured for optimal
conditions to support iSCSI traffic which will cause some automatic configuration to occur
including jumbo frames and flow-control on all ports; no storm control and spanning-tree port
fast to be enabled on the port of detection.
After you execute the iscsi profile-compellent command, the following actions occur:
• Jumbo frame size is set to the maximum for all interfaces on all ports and port-channels, if it is not already enabled.
• Spanning-tree portfast is enabled on the interface.
• Unicast storm control is disabled on the interface.
Enter the iscsi profile-compellent command in INTERFACE Configuration mode; for example:
Dell(conf-if-te-o/50)# iscsi profile-compellent
Application of Quality of Service to iSCSI Traffic
Flows
You can configure iSCSI CoS mode. This mode controls whether CoS (dot1p priority) queue assignment and/or packet marking
is performed on iSCSI traffic.
When you enable iSCSI CoS mode, the CoS policy is applied to iSCSI traffic. When you disable iSCSI CoS mode, iSCSI sessions
and connections are still detected and displayed in the status tables, but no CoS policy is applied to iSCSI traffic.
You can configure whether the iSCSI optimization feature uses the VLAN priority or IP DSCP mapping to determine the traffic
class queue. By default, iSCSI flows are assigned to dot1p priority 4. To map incoming iSCSI traffic on an interface to a dot1p
priority-queue other than 4, use the CoS dot1p-priority command (refer to
Assignment). Dell Networking recommends setting the CoS dot1p priority-queue to 0 (zero).
You can configure whether iSCSI frames are re-marked to contain the configured VLAN priority tag or IP DSCP when
forwarded through the switch.
NOTE: On a switch in which a large proportion of traffic is iSCSI, CoS queue assignments may interfere with other network
control-plane traffic, such as ARP or LACP. Balance preferential treatment of iSCSI traffic against the needs of other critical
data in the network.
QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue
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