I am trying to work out how the traffic shaping works, but the manuals are only talking about credits but no where any examples. Having a VM and put it on his own [Virtual Machine] port group, w...
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I am trying to work out how the traffic shaping works, but the manuals are only talking about credits but no where any examples. Having a VM and put it on his own [Virtual Machine] port group, with following parameters: Average bandwidth: 10000 Kbits Peak bandwidth: 25000 Kbits Burst size: 4096 Kbytes - How to get credits [ I understand it is adding when the VM uses less then the Average bandwidth, and what is the credit in figures, is it kbits or time to burst? - Assume the VM is having a download started for a certain amount of time, will it start at Average speed, then go straight to the Burst and for how long, when will it fall back to Peak bandwidth? Sorry so many questions.. I find it very difficult to work out other then testing how this works, could anyone shine a light on this please? Thanks a lot for your precious time. Traffic Shaping concepts: Average Bandwidth: Target traffic rate cap that the switch tries to enforce. Every time a client uses less than the defined Average Bandwidth, credit builds up. Peak Bandwidth: Extra bandwidth available, above the Average Bandwidth, for a short burst. The availability of the burst depends on credit accumulated so far. Burst Size: Amount of traffic that can be transmitted or received at Peak speed. By combining Peak Bandwidth and Burst Size, you can calculate the maximum allowed time for the burst.