Greetings,
We are currently running CBWFQ with the below policy in place. One of the goals behind the policy was to try and create a less-than best-effort (BULK-DATA) class to put AV traffic into. The AV traffic is being marked appropriately and is hitting the below policy, however it does not appear to be working as effectively as I had hoped. The issue is, when a client at a remote site gets a full AV update (50-70MB) it uses up the whole link and users complain that the network is slow. I understand this is a big BW discrepency and large file, but was hoping that CBWFQ could help this situation out by giving it only 5% and enabling WRED.
The AV updates comes from our Data Center (100MB connection to the WAN) and goes to remote sites (mostly T1).
We tested this out in the lab by transffering (2) 50MB files, one unmarked (DSCP 0 - Default Class) the other marked AF11 - BULK-DATA class. In the testing the defualt traffic always completed much faster, my reasoning was because default-class has 25% of the BW (5:1 ratio). However, this does not seem to be working like this in the real world, in other words once the AV update starts everything else slows to a halt and BE traffic does not appear to transmitted at 5:1. Also, there are only 2 classes being marked/matched at this time DEFAULT and BULK-DATA.
I guess my first question is, am I expecting too much out of QoS for this situation since we have a large access-rate discrepency between our DC's and remote sites (100Mb-> 1.5Mb) along with transferring a large file.
The second one is, how are others handling this? We have thought about just policing the traffic, but there are some challenges with that due to the amount of sites and MPLS connectivity.
Lastly, what am I missing? Based on the testing I would expect the 5:1 transfer for BE traffic over AV traffic. Is this not occuring becuase the input queues are overwhelmed for that interface, etc...?
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policy-map Outbound-To-WAN
class MISSION-CRITICAL
bandwidth percent 40
random-detect dscp-based
class BULK-DATA
bandwidth percent 5
random-detect dscp-based
class IP-ROUTING
bandwidth percent 2
class NETWORK-MANAGEMENT
bandwidth percent 2
class SCAVENGER
bandwidth percent 1
random-detect
class BUSINESS-DATA
bandwidth percent 25
random-detect dscp-based
class class-default
set dscp default
fair-queue
