
Enabling Data Center Bridging
DCB is automatically configured when you configure FCoE or iSCSI optimization.
Data center bridging supports converged enhanced Ethernet (CEE) in a data center network. DCB is
disabled by default. It must be enabled to support CEE.
• Priority-based flow control
• Enhanced transmission selection
• Data center bridging exchange protocol
• FCoE initialization protocol (FIP) snooping
DCB processes virtual local area network (VLAN)-tagged packets and dot1p priority values. Untagged
packets are treated with a dot1p priority of 0.
For DCB to operate effectively, you can classify ingress traffic according to its dot1p priority so that it
maps to different data queues. The dot1p-queue assignments used are shown in the following table.
To enable DCB, enable either the iSCSI optimization configuration or the FCoE configuration.
To enable DCB with PFC buffers on a switch, enter the following commands, save the configuration, and
reboot the system to allow the changes to take effect.
1. Enable DCB.
CONFIGURATION mode
dcb enable
2. Set PFC buffering on the DCB stack unit.
CONFIGURATION mode
dcb stack-unit all pfc-buffering pfc-ports 64 pfc-queues 2
NOTE: To save the pfc buffering configuration changes, save the configuration and reboot the
system.
NOTE: Dell Networking OS Behavior: DCB is not supported if you enable link-level flow control on
one or more interfaces. For more information, refer to Ethernet Pause Frames.
QoS dot1p Traffic Classification and Queue Assignment
The following section describes QoS dot1P traffic classification and assignments.
DCB supports PFC, ETS, and DCBx to handle converged Ethernet traffic that is assigned to an egress
queue according to the following QoS methods:
Honor dot1p You can honor dot1p priorities in ingress traffic at the port or global switch level
(refer to Default dot1p to Queue Mapping) using the service-class dynamic
dot1p command in INTERFACE configuration mode.
Layer 2 class
maps
You can use dot1p priorities to classify traffic in a class map and apply a service
policy to an ingress port to map traffic to egress queues.
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