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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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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
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(60 responses)- A87% (52)
- B2% (1)
- C2% (1)
- D3% (2)
- E7% (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.
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.
OneConnect is a connection pooling feature that reuses server-side TCP connections to reduce server load - it does not relate to CPU core scaling.
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.
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.
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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