In addition to assigning VLANs to server profiles, SmartFabric automates QoS settings based on the Network Type specified. The following figure shows that when defining a VLAN, several options are pre-defined.
The following table lists the network types and related settings. The QoS group is the numerical value for the queues available in SmartFabric mode. Available queues include 2 through 5. Queues 1, 6, and 7 are reserved.
show queuing weights interface ethernet
command that is described in Common CLI troubleshooting commands for Full Switch and SmartFabric modes. Network type | Description | QoS group |
General Purpose (Bronze) | Used for low-priority data traffic | 2 |
General Purpose (Silver) | Used for standard/default-priority data traffic | 3 |
General Purpose (Gold) | Used for high-priority data traffic | 4 |
General Purpose (Platinum) | Used for extremely high-priority data traffic | 5 |
Cluster Interconnect | Used for cluster heartbeat VLANs | 5 |
Hypervisor Management | Used for hypervisor management connections such as the ESXi management VLAN | 5 |
Storage - NVMe/TCP | Used for NVMe/TCP storage traffic | 4 |
Storage - iSCSI | Used for iSCSI VLANs | 5 |
Storage - FCoE | Used for FCoE VLANs | 5 |
Storage - Data Replication | Used for VLANs supporting storage data replication such as for VMware VSAN | 5 |
VM Migration | Used for VLANs supporting vMotion and similar technologies | 5 |
VMware FT Logging | Used for VLANs supporting VMware Fault Tolerance | 5 |