In VMware NSX, QoS is handled by setting the DSCP and CoS values for the virtual machine:
- This is accomplished by opening the settings for
dvPortGroup
and choosingTraffic filtering and marking
:
- Once you have enabled traffic filtering and marking, you will need to create traffic rules. Next, we have a traffic rule named
Network Traffic Rule 1
, and we are setting it to tag traffic with either a CoS value, a DSCP value, or both:
- Now that we have chosen a tag, we can see a few more of the options, such as updating the CoS or DSCP tags. If CoS/DSCP is already set in the packet, we will remove it and replace it here to make sure that it follows the design. Also, the direction of the traffic we are modifying is chosen; it can be ingress, egress, or both:
- When we create a new traffic rule, we need to set up traffic for it to match to. For example, we can match by IP, MAC, or system traffic type:
If we choose System traffic type
, we get a selection box that holds predefined types of traffic...