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The QoS Bandwidth Estimation feature uses Corvil Bandwidth technology to allow you, as a network manager, to determine the bandwidth requirements to achieve user-specified quality of service (QoS) targets for networked applications.
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•Prerequisites for QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Restrictions for QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Information About QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•How to Configure QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Configuration Examples for QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Feature Information for QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Before using this feature, configure a class map and a policy map using the Modular Quality of Service (QoS) Command-Line Interface (CLI) (MQC), and specify the appropriate match criteria.
•This feature requires the purchase of a Cisco IOS software feature license. The right to use this feature is not included in the base Cisco IOS software license for the software image.
This feature supports policy maps that are attached to interfaces in an output direction only.
To use the QoS Bandwidth Estimation feature, you should understand the following concepts:
•Feature Overview of QoS Bandwidth Estimation
•Benefits of QoS Bandwidth Estimation
Allocating adequate bandwidth is key to ensuring the network performance required for applications. However, allocating too much bandwidth can be costly. The QoS Bandwidth Estimation feature in Cisco IOS software uses Corvil Bandwidth technology to allow you, as a network manager, to determine the bandwidth requirements to achieve user-specified quality of service (QoS) targets for networked applications.
Corvil Bandwidth can determine the minimum bandwidth required to deliver traffic within customer-specified QoS targets with statistical reliability. From a network management perspective, an application's QoS requirements are characterized with respect to its sensitivity to delay and packet loss. Corvil Bandwidth provides a way to specify limits for delay and packet loss, and get a tight estimate of the minimum bandwidth essential to achieve desired application performance.
Corvil Bandwidth achieves its results by taking very short timescale (8-millisecond) snapshots of traffic and summarizing them in traffic descriptors that place very low overhead on the router because each descriptor has fewer than 300 bytes. These traffic descriptors record the exceptional events (bursts) and are input to the Corvil Bandwidth algorithm to calculate the minimum bandwidth required to deliver the user-specified QoS target for the observed traffic. (The QoS target is specified in terms of sensitivity to traffic delay and packet loss. For example, voice over IP [VoIP] traffic is very sensitive to both, whereas e-mail file transfer is sensitive to neither.)
As a result, turning on Corvil Bandwidth in the router allows you to obtain bandwidth values that can be used directly to configure the existing Cisco IOS QoS mechanisms on the router to achieve the required application performance as efficiently as possible.
For example, in Figure 1, Corvil Bandwidth is enabled on the router so that the serial interface can deliver the WAN traffic within the customer-specified QoS targets with statistical reliability.
Figure 1 Sample Topology Using QoS Bandwidth Estimation
The following sections describe how Corvil Bandwidth can be implemented:
•Bandwidth Allocations by Traffic Class
To use Corvil Bandwidth to establish the overall bandwidth requirement for a link, you start with QoS targets appropriate for the speed of the link and for the applications being carried on the link (Figure 2). The QoS targets are achieved as long as the link capacity is greater than or equal to the computed Corvil Bandwidth value.
Figure 2 Link Sizing
Corvil Bandwidth can be used to size bandwidth allocations for individual traffic classes defined via the MQC (Figure 3). You specify the QoS target for a traffic class, and Corvil Bandwidth reports the minimum amount of bandwidth that must be allocated to meet that target. The Corvil Bandwidth value can be used directly in the corresponding MQC policy. (The bandwidth allocation is not changed automatically.)
Figure 3 Bandwidth Allocations
Table 1 shows the features and benefits of QoS Bandwidth Estimation using Corvil Bandwidth technology.
This section contains the following procedures:
•Generating a Bandwidth Estimate (required)
•Attaching the Policy Map to an Interface (required)
•Verifying the Configuration (optional)
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. policy-map policy-map-name
4. class [class-name | class-default]
5. bandwidth [bandwidth-kbps | remaining percent percentage | percent percentage]
6. estimate bandwidth [drop-one-in n] [delay-one-in n milliseconds n]
7. end
This feature supports policy maps attached to an interface in the output direction only.
1. enable
2. configure terminal
3. interface type number [name-tag]
4. service-policy {input | output} policy-map-name
5. end
To verify that bandwidth estimates have been generated, perform the following task.
1. enable
2. show policy-map interface interface-name [vc [vpi/] vci] [dlci dlci] [input | output]
3. exit
This section contains the following configuration examples:
•Example: Generating Bandwidth Estimates for QoS Targets
•Example: Attaching the Policy Map to an Interface
•Example: Verifying the Configuration
In the following example, a policy map and a traffic class are configured. Then bandwidth estimates for QoS targets including packet loss rate, delay time and probability, and timeframe in milliseconds are configured.
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)# policy-map my-policy
Router(config-pmap)# class my-class
Router(config-pmap-c)# bandwidth percent 20
Router(config-pmap-c)# estimate bandwidth drop-one-in 100 delay-one-in 100 milliseconds 50
Router(config-pmap-c)# end
The following example shows the policy map named my-policy being attached to Fast Ethernet interface 0/1 in the output direction:
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)# interface f0/1
Router(config-if)# service-policy output my-policy
Router(config-if)# exit
The following example from the show policy-map interface command verifies that the policy map named my-policy is attached to Fast Ethernet interface 0/1 in the output direction and that bandwidth estimates have been created:
Router# show policy-map interface fastethernet0/1
FastEthernet0/1
Service-policy output: my-policy
Class-map: icmp (match-all)
199 packets, 22686 bytes
30 second offered rate 0 bps, drop rate 0 bps
Match: access-group 101
Bandwidth Estimation:
Quality-of-Service targets:
drop no more than one packet in 1000 (Packet loss < 0.10%)
delay no more than one packet in 100 by 40 (or more) milliseconds
(Confidence: 99.0000%)
Corvil Bandwidth: 1 kbits/sec
Class-map: class-default (match-any)
112 packets, 14227 bytes
30 second offered rate 0 bps, drop rate 0 bps
Match: any
Bandwidth Estimation:
Quality-of-Service targets:
<none specified, falling back to drop no more than one packet in 500
Corvil Bandwidth: 1 kbits/sec
The following sections provide references related to the QoS Bandwidth Estimation feature.
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Table 2 lists the release history for this feature.
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Note Table 2 lists only the Cisco IOS software release that introduced support for a given feature in a given Cisco IOS software release train. Unless noted otherwise, subsequent releases of that Cisco IOS software release train also support that feature.
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The QoS Bandwidth Estimation feature uses Corvil Bandwidth technology to allow you, as a network manager, to determine the bandwidth requirements to achieve user-specified quality of service (QoS) targets for networked applications. The following sections provide information about this feature: •Information About QoS Bandwidth Estimation •How to Configure QoS Bandwidth Estimation The following commands were introduced or modified by this feature: estimate bandwidth, show policy-map interface. |