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An organization is designing a new vSphere cluster to support a new product implementation.
The following challenges have been identified by the vSphere administration team:
The organization has the vSphere Enterprise License.
The network team needs to gather virtual machine network statistics over a long period of time.
The network team needs the ability to quickly assess virtual machine traffic in the event of an attack.
The network team has previously had problems implementing manual etherchannel configurations on their physical switches, resulting in production outages.
The new cluster’s initial size is 15 hosts.
The organization is willing to upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing if it addresses these challenges.
Which three features of a version 5.5 vSphere Distributed Switch would address these challenges? (Choose three.)
A. LACP in Dynamic Mode
B. Port Mirroring
C. Network vMotion
D. Private VLANs
E. Network I/O Control
Correct Answer: ABC
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
LACP enables a network device to negotiate an automatic bundling of links by sending LACP packets to the peer. Compared to Static EtherChannel, LACP has some significant benefits like failover or avoiding misconfigured and non-matching device-to-device settings. LACP is only available with vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing.
Port mirroring is when a network switch relays a copy of network packets seen on switch ports to a network monitoring device linked to a different switch port. It does not gather data itself. vSphere vMotion is a feature of ESXi and vCenter Server that allows an administrator to move a running VM from one physical host to another physical host without having to power off the VM. This migration between two physical hosts occurs with no downtime and with no loss of network connectivity to the VM.
References:
http://cloudmaniac.net/vsphere-enhanced-lacp-support/
Marshall, Nick and Scott Lowe, Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5, Sybex, Indianapolis, 2014, p 9