DELL N3000 User Manual

Configuring iSCSI Optimization

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Configuring iSCSI Optimization

NOTE:

This feature is not available on N2000 switches.

This chapter describes how to configure Internet Small Computer System

Interface (iSCSI) optimization, which enables special quality of service

(QoS) treatment for iSCSI traffic.
The topics covered in this chapter include:

iSCSI Optimization Overview

iSCSI optimization provides a means of monitoring iSCSI sessions and iSCSI

traffic on the switch. This is accomplished by monitoring, or “snooping,”

traffic to detect packets used by iSCSI stations to establish iSCSI sessions

and connections. Data from these exchanges may optionally be used to create

classification rules to assign traffic between the stations to a configured traffic

class. The traffic classification affects how the packets in the flow are queued

and scheduled for egress on the destination port.