Shape - Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Command Reference Manual

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Quality of Service Commands
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shape

To configure shaping on an egress queue to impose a maximum rate on it, use the shape command. To
remove a shaping configuration, use the no form of this command.
Syntax Description
average
average-rate
bps
kbps
mbps
gbps
percent
percent-rate
Defaults bps is default data rate.
Command Modes Global configuration
Supported User Roles
network-admin
vdc-admin
Command History Release
4.0
Usage Guidelines You can use the system-defined egress queue class for the type of module to which you want to apply
the policy map. For a list of the system-defined type queuing class maps, see
The device forces the shape rate to the closest value in the following percentage intervals: 100, 50, 25,
12.5, 6.25, 3.13, or 1.07.
If you configure shaping, you cannot configure bandwidth or priority in the same policy map.
Note
This command does not require a license.
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shape [average] {average-rate [bps | kbps | mbps | gbps] | percent percent-rate}
no shape [average] {average-rate [bps | kbps | mbps | gbps] | percent percent-rate}
(Optional) Specifies an optional keyword. Shaping is based on an average rate.
Average rate for shaping. The range of values is from 1 to 80000000000; the range
of policing values that are mathematically significant is from 8000 to 80 Gbps.
(Optional) Specifies the units of bits per second.
(Optional) Specifies the units of 1000 bits per second.
(Optional) Specifies the units of megabits per second.
(Optional) Specifies the units of gigabits per second.
Specifies the percentage of the underlying interface link rate.
Note You can use the percent keyword only for interfaces that are set to
autonegotiate.
Percentage from 1 to 100.
Modification
This command was introduced.
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Quality of Service Command Reference, Release 5.x
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Table 1.
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