fabric.load_balance_policy

The load balancing policy options for balancing traffic among the available uplink ports. Static hash load balancing is the traditional load balancing mechanism used in networks where each flow is allocated to an uplink based on a hash of its 5-tuple.

ACI class	lbpPol
RN	lbp-{name}
Cursor	FabricLoadBalancePolicyCursor
Parent	fabric
Atomic	—

Attributes

Accepted as keyword arguments of .load_balance_policy(name) and of .set(**attrs) on this cursor. Enum parameters also accept the plain string.

parameter	wire	type	values	default	description
name (positional)	name	str	—	—	The name of the load balancing policy.
description	descr	str	—	—	Specifies a description of the policy definition.
dynamic_load_balancing_mode	dlbMode	TopoctrlDLbMode	aggressive, conservative, off	off	The dynamic load balancer (DLB) mode adjusts the traffic allocations according to congestion levels. It measures the congestion across the available paths and places the flows on the least congested paths, which results in an optimal or near optimal placement of the data.
hash_gtp_policy	hashGtp	bool	—	False	GTP Hash for Load Balancing
load_balancing_mode	mode	TopoctrlLbMode	lfr, traditional	traditional	The load balancer administrative state. In all modes of load balancing, static or dynamic, the traffic is sent only on those uplinks or paths that meet the criteria for equal cost multipath (ECMP); these paths are equal and the lowest cost from a routing perspective.
owner_key	ownerKey	str	—	—	The key for enabling clients to own their data for entity correlation.
owner_tag	ownerTag	str	—	—	A tag for enabling clients to add their own data. For example, to indicate who created this object.
prioritization_mode	pri	TopoctrlPrioritization	off, on	off	Dynamic Packet Prioritization (DPP) prioritizes short flows higher than long flows; a short flow is less than approximately 15 packets. Short flows are more sensitive to latency than long ones. DPP can improve overall application performance.