An architect is responsible for designing a new vSphere-based solution to meet the following customer requirements:
The solution must support component-level redundancy.
The solution must support physical segregation of management and workload traffic.
Any traffic from virtual infrastructure-level operations (such as migrations of workloads between hosts within a cluster) must not impact any workload.
The solution should react to any substantial impact of physical network traffic to ensure workload traffic is unaffected.
In response to this requirement, the architect makes the following logical design decisions:
The solution will separate vSphere management traffic from all other network traffic.
The solution will ensure that all replication and vMotion traffic will be separated from all other traffic.
The solution will separate workload traffic from all other network traffic.
The customer has a hardware standard for physical VMware ESXi host servers that includes 6 x 10GbE network.
Which three physical design decisions should the architect make to meet the requirements? (Choose three.)
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C, D, F
The solution will configure the six (6) available network connections into load balanced pairs.
Configuring the six network connections into load-balanced pairs ensures that network traffic is distributed efficiently across the available physical NICs, providing redundancy and preventing any single network adapter from becoming a bottleneck. This aligns with the requirement to separate and balance traffic types, ensuring that no single network adapter is overloaded.
The solution will deploy a vSphere distributed switch with three (3) uplink port groups.
Using a vSphere Distributed Switch with three uplink port groups provides a clean separation of traffic types (management, replication, vMotion, and workload traffic). The distributed switch allows for better scalability, visibility, and management of network traffic in a multi-NIC setup, meeting the need to segregate network traffic and ensure redundancy at the switch level.
The solution will configure the Route Based on Physical NIC Load load balancing method.
The Route Based on Physical NIC Load load balancing method distributes traffic based on the current load of each physical NIC, ensuring that network traffic is balanced efficiently across all available NICs. This helps maintain optimal performance and ensures that one NIC is not overwhelmed by traffic from different types of network operations.
