Creating QOS policies within UCS Manager can be somewhat cumbersome. In UCS Manager, on the Lan tab; you would right-click UCS policies and click create… one by one you would go through this process to define you UCS policies, if you have a lot of policies or a lot of UCS builds to do this can become quite monotonous.

Creating Cisco UCS QOS Policies

Using Cisco PowerTool, this can be done quite quickly using the Add-UCSQosPolicy and Add-UCSvNicEgressPolicy command-lets. For example:

Start-UcsTransaction
$mo = Get-UcsOrg -Level root  | Add-UcsQosPolicy -Name BE
$mo_1 = $mo | Add-UcsVnicEgressPolicy -ModifyPresent -Burst 10240 -HostControl none -Prio "best-effort" -Rate line-rate
Complete-UcsTransaction

Start-UcsTransaction
$mo = Get-UcsOrg -Level root  | Add-UcsQosPolicy -Name Bronze
$mo_1 = $mo | Add-UcsVnicEgressPolicy -ModifyPresent -Burst 10240 -HostControl none -Prio "bronze" -Rate line-rate
Complete-UcsTransaction

Start-UcsTransaction
$mo = Get-UcsOrg -Level root  | Add-UcsQosPolicy -Name Gold
$mo_1 = $mo | Add-UcsVnicEgressPolicy -ModifyPresent -Burst 10240 -HostControl none -Prio "gold" -Rate line-rate
Complete-UcsTransaction

Start-UcsTransaction
$mo = Get-UcsOrg -Level root  | Add-UcsQosPolicy -Name Platinum
$mo_1 = $mo | Add-UcsVnicEgressPolicy -ModifyPresent -Burst 10240 -HostControl none -Prio "platinum" -Rate line-rate
Complete-UcsTransaction

Start-UcsTransaction
$mo = Get-UcsOrg -Level root  | Add-UcsQosPolicy -Name Silver
$mo_1 = $mo | Add-UcsVnicEgressPolicy -ModifyPresent -Burst 10240 -HostControl none -Prio "silver" -Rate line-rate
Complete-UcsTransaction

Would create the Best Effort, Bronze, Gold, Platinum, and Silver QOS Policies.

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