The Concept of Using Shares

When provisioning bandwidth for Oracle SD-WAN Edge with a large number of sites, using percentages does not allow for enough granularity as the site count increases.

Oracle has instituted the use of shares for each of the Services or Groups of Services within the WAN Link. The total number of shares is up to the user, allowing any amount of granularity or precision when allocating bandwidth among the different Services. There are two distinct pools of these shares: WAN Ingress and WAN Egress.

Note:

All Services receive their Min Reserved Bandwidth before Fair distribution, which could result in Groups with equal Fair Shares having disparate Fair Rates. Fair Rates can also be affected by Service Maximums, if defined.