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Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is migrating the existing switching infrastructure to a proposed model. Which technology is enabled on the Cisco Nexus switches to support this migration to…
The correct answer is C. VPC. Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a Cisco Nexus technology that allows two switches to appear as a single logical device to downstream devices, enabling active-active EtherChannel connections for high availability and bandwidth.
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Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer is migrating the existing switching infrastructure to a proposed model. Which technology is enabled on the Cisco Nexus switches to support this migration to its future status?
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- APAgP
- BVSS
- CVPC
- DFCoE
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Why each option
Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a Cisco Nexus technology that allows two switches to appear as a single logical device to downstream devices, enabling active-active EtherChannel connections for high availability and bandwidth.
Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) is a Cisco proprietary protocol for negotiating EtherChannels between a single pair of devices and does not provide multi-chassis link aggregation for redundancy across two separate switches.
Virtual Switching System (VSS) is a Cisco technology primarily used on Catalyst switches to combine two physical switches into one logical switch, but it is not typically used on Nexus switches for this purpose.
Virtual Port-Channel (vPC) is a virtualization technology on Cisco Nexus switches that allows two Nexus switches to act as a single logical switch for downstream devices. This enables active-active EtherChannel connections from servers to both Nexus switches, eliminating spanning tree blocked ports and providing high bandwidth and resiliency in a data center migration.
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a technology for encapsulating Fibre Channel frames over Ethernet and is used for storage networking convergence, not for general switching infrastructure migration or multi-chassis link aggregation.
Concept tested: Cisco Nexus Virtual Port-Channel (vPC)
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/configuration/guide/cli_rel_4_0_1a/n5k_cli_config/vPC.html
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