UCS Central - QoS System Class Policy

[LukaszTJB]

Hello everbody,

is it possbile to configure QoS System Class Settings for a UCS Domain through Central? I know how to create a QoS System Class Policy for a domain Group within central but I cannot find out how to apply it. If I just create the Policy, the settings are not applied to the UCS Domains of the Domain Group. Also it's possbile to configure multiple QoS System Class Policies for a Domain Group, so my guess is there must be somewhere a setting where to activate a certain policy.

On the UCS Central Documentation I've only found the Point how to create the Policy.

Can somebody give me a hint how to apply the Policy?

Kind Regards

Lukasz

[Wes Austin]

Can you confirm the UCSM version you are running? Per this document, you require 2.2.7:

Cisco UCS Central Getting Started Guide, Release 1.5

[LukaszTJB]

Hello Wes,

I'm running UCSM 3.1.2 and UCS Central 2.0.1a.

Kind regards

Lukasz

[Wes Austin]

Thanks Lukasz,

Reading the release notes here, it appears you may need 3.1.3 to support QoS with 2.0.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/release/notes/RN-CiscoUCSCentral_2_0.html

Feature Support for Release 2.0

Cisco UCS Central Features

Supported Cisco UCS Central Versions

Supported Cisco UCS Manager Versions

2.1

2.2

3.0

3.1

Support for Second RAID Controller in the IO Expander on Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server (UCS-C3K-M4RAID)	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Support for Dual HBA Controller on Cisco UCS S3260 Storage Server (UCS-S3260-DHBA)	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Support for Dual SIOC	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Globalization of Service Profiles	2.0(1a)	No	2.2(8) and later	No	3.1(1) and later
BIOS Asset Tag	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Hot patching/ Lightweight Upgrades	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
User-Defined Zone Profiles	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Integrated Server Diagnostics	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
SED Security Policies, Smart SSD, and KMIP Support	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Automatic Configuration of FI- Server Ports	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Set KVM IP on physical servers	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Fabric Evacuation in Firmware Auto Install	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Direct Fabric Interconnect Evacuation	2.0(1a)	No	2.2(4) and later	No	3.1(1) and later
Launch HTML5 KVM Client	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Multicast Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Power Sync Policy	2.0(1a)	No	2.2(8)	No	3.1(2) and later
Statistics Threshold Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Graphics Card Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
QoS System Class	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Hardware Change Discovery Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Port Auto-Discovery Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
KMIP Certification Policy	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Server Reboot Logs	2.0(1a)	No	No	No	3.1(3) and later
Delete Decommissioned Rack Server, Chassis, FEX	2.0(1a)	Yes	Yes	No	3.1(1) and later

However, I am currently deploying this in the lab using UCSM 3.1.3 and UCSC 2.0.1a and once complete, I will post some screen captures to help with configuration.

[LukaszTJB]

Thank you very much for your help.

[Wes Austin · Accepted solution]

Here are steps to accomplish the QoS configuration. Let me know if there are issues.

https://supportforums.cisco.com/t5/data-center-documents/ucs-central-qos-configuration/ta-p/3189560

[LukaszTJB]

Hello Wes,

thank you for the detailed description. I'll will try this by the end of the week. At the moment I don't have any UCS Domain running firmware 3.1.3 available. 

Kind regards

Lukasz