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What are options for extended buffer-to-buffer credits?

Chetan R
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Hello

We have MDS 9124 switches at a remote site, and we are seeing some bandwidth throttling and a little extra latency due to buffer credit exhaustion. They have only 16 credits RX at the R2 side of an SRDF/S link to our DR site. The 9153's on the production side have 250 credits, which is ample. Ideally, I'd like to have around 70-80 bb_credits on the receive side. Can this be accomplished by adding an Enterprise license pkg and enabling extended bb credits?

I understand that Extended BB_credits are not supported on the Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric Switch. Do we have any alternative to increase the BB_credits. Will the following hold good on long haul links.

switch# config t

switch(config)# interface fc2/1-2, fc2/4-5, fc2/8-38, fc2/43-48

switch(config-if)# shutdown

switch(config-if)# out-of-service

switch# config t

switch(config)# interface fcx/y

switch(config)#switchport fcrxbbcredit 250 mode E

Please advise

Thanks

Chetan R

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ezhensyk
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MDS 9124 has 64 BB_Credit per 4-port group. You can assign up to 61 BB_Credit to single port if you disable other 3 ports in the port group