Traffic Management
In addition to implementing the Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF) Protocol to calculate the best path between two switches and providing in-order delivery features, Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS enhances the architecture of the Cisco MDS 9000 family with several advanced traffic-management features that help ensure consistent performance of the SAN under varying load conditions.
Quality of Service
Four distinct quality-of-service (QoS) priority levels are available: three for Fibre Channel data traffic and one for Fibre Channel control traffic. Fibre Channel data traffic for latency-sensitive applications can be configured to receive higher priority than throughput-intensive applications using data QoS priority levels. Control traffic ...
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