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HP TopTools for Hubs and Switches User Manual

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Quality of Service
Overview

HP Procurve Switch 8000M

HP Procurve Routing Switch 9308M and 9304M

HP Procurve Routing Switch 6308M-SX and 6208M-SX

N o t e

The Quality of Service features available in HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches
includes the ability to set up consistent traffic prioritization (Class of Service)
policies across the Procurve switches in your network. The Class of Service
features can also be configured on an individual switch using the switch's
console or web browser interface. HP Procurve documentation uses Quality
of Service (QoS) to refer to HP TopTools network-wide prioritization, and
Class of Service (CoS) to refer to prioritization configured on an individual
switch using the switch's web browser or console interface.

At release P.01 of HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches (October, 1999), the HP
Procurve Switches 1600M, 2400M, 2424M, 4000M, and 8000M support QoS in
HP TopTools for Hubs & Switches when upgraded to software release C.07.01
or later. You can download software upgrades from HP's Procurve
website at

http://www.hp.com/go/hpprocurve.

Figure 11-1. Quality of Service Main Page