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Which of the following TMOS feature enables BIG-IP to scale performance based to the available CPU cores?

The correct answer is A. Clustered multi-processing. Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) is the TMOS feature that allows BIG-IP to distribute packet processing workloads across all available CPU cores.

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Question

Which of the following TMOS feature enables BIG-IP to scale performance based to the available CPU cores?

Options

  • AClustered multi-processing
  • BOneConnect
  • CHTTP class
  • DSession persistence
  • EAuto Last Hop

How the community answered

(60 responses)
  • A
    87% (52)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    3% (2)
  • E
    7% (4)

Why each option

Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) is the TMOS feature that allows BIG-IP to distribute packet processing workloads across all available CPU cores.

AClustered multi-processingCorrect

Clustered Multi-Processing (CMP) enables TMOS to scale traffic processing horizontally across multiple CPU cores on the BIG-IP hardware or virtual edition. Without CMP, processing would be handled by a limited number of cores; with CMP enabled, the system can leverage all available cores to increase throughput and connection capacity proportionally.

BOneConnect

OneConnect is a connection pooling feature that reuses server-side TCP connections to reduce server load - it does not relate to CPU core scaling.

CHTTP class

HTTP class is a traffic classification and policy feature used to direct HTTP traffic based on attributes like URI or host header - not a performance scaling mechanism.

DSession persistence

Session persistence ensures a client continues to connect to the same pool member across requests - it has no relationship to CPU core utilization or scaling.

EAuto Last Hop

Auto Last Hop controls how BIG-IP routes return traffic back to the client by tracking the source MAC address - it does not affect CPU core scaling.

Concept tested: TMOS Clustered Multi-Processing for CPU core scaling

Source: https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-15-1-0/tmos-concepts/tmos-concepts-chapter.html

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#TMOS#clustered multi-processing#CPU scaling#BIG-IP performance

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