09-15-2010 10:17 AM - edited 03-01-2019 09:43 AM
Could someone direct me to the documentation for the proper way to enable jumbo frame support on UCS? I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem and have configured MTU of 9000 from ESX running on a blade to an NFS server off a Nexus 5k. I have good documentation for configuring jumbo frame support on the Nexus 5k and on ESX but nothing really specific for UCS.
For Nexus 5k:
show run:
policy-map type network-qos jumbo
class type network-qos class-default
mtu 9216
system qos
service-policy type network-qos jumbo
For ESXi:
esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 vSwitch0
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09-15-2010 10:54 PM
Russell
What network adapter are you using? M81KR or the M71KR's or any other?
The MTU is set on a per CoS basis in UCS. If you do not have any QoS policy defined for the vNIC that is going to the vSwitch, then the traffic is going to Best-Effort Class. All you need to do to enable jumbo frames is to enter the MTU to be 9000 in the MTU pulldown for whatever class the traffic is going to.
Its also given in the user guide -
MTU drop-down list
The maximum transmission unit for the channel. This can be:
An integer between 1500 and 9216. This value corresponds to the maximum packet size.
fc—A predefined packet size of 2240.
normal—A predefined packet size of 1500.
Note | This field is always set to fc for Fibre Channel. |
--Manish
09-15-2010 10:54 PM
Russell
What network adapter are you using? M81KR or the M71KR's or any other?
The MTU is set on a per CoS basis in UCS. If you do not have any QoS policy defined for the vNIC that is going to the vSwitch, then the traffic is going to Best-Effort Class. All you need to do to enable jumbo frames is to enter the MTU to be 9000 in the MTU pulldown for whatever class the traffic is going to.
Its also given in the user guide -
MTU drop-down list
The maximum transmission unit for the channel. This can be:
An integer between 1500 and 9216. This value corresponds to the maximum packet size.
fc—A predefined packet size of 2240.
normal—A predefined packet size of 1500.
Note | This field is always set to fc for Fibre Channel. |
--Manish
09-16-2010 05:07 AM
Manish, thank you, that did the trick. We currently do not have any QoS implemented so I was thinking that the QoS policies would not have any effect, but as you pointed out, everything falls into the 'Best Effort' class. I made the change to 9000 for the MTU on Best Effort and it works. I had already set the MTU for the vNIC to 9000 which I assume is also required.
Thanks again,
-R
09-16-2010 10:09 AM
Russell
Yes, config at the OS level is also required which you had already covered as per the show commands you had sent.
In Linux for example one would use ifconfig to set interface MTU etc.
Thanks
--Manish
09-16-2010 11:57 AM
When I mentioned vNIC, I was referring to the vNIC or vNIC Template in UCS. In my scenario the configuration of the MTU value 'end-to-end' would be:
Cheers,
-R
09-04-2014 05:25 AM
Hi Guys,
Just a quick one, great post by the way.
I also need to to change my Best Effort traffic to 9212 but all my traffic does indeed fall into this CoS.
I'm in full production so does anyone know the impact it may have on the FI / vNICs or the current traffic passing through the interfaces.
Regards
Steve.
03-14-2011 12:07 PM
Manish,
I also wanted to add to this post that if you SSH into Fab Interconnect and do a show ethernet 1/x that you may see an MTU size listed here of 1500, even though you may have, say, NFS traffic going over an appliance port and vNIC's configured for jumbo in UCSM.
Your response:
The show output is expected.
The FI’s and Nexus 5000 do CoS based MTU and not interface based.
So if you set the MTU in the System class to 9000, any packet recd on any port on the FI with that CoS value will pass that 9000 byte packet.
Thought would be good info for the blog....
02-11-2013 06:09 AM
good to know - i guess i'll stop refreshing that sh int output waiting for it to change to 9000 then!
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