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A network engineer is configuring a pair of 6248 Fabric Interconnects, each with dual 10G uplinks to a parent switch. One design retirement is to ensure a specific server is able to use 10G of through
The correct answer is C. LAN Pin Groups. To ensure a specific server within a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis receives dedicated 10G throughput to the LAN without contention, LAN Pin Groups are the appropriate technology.
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A network engineer is configuring a pair of 6248 Fabric Interconnects, each with dual 10G uplinks to a parent switch. One design retirement is to ensure a specific server is able to use 10G of throughput to the LAN without contention from other servers within the 5108 chassis. Which technology will accomplish this?
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- APort-Channels
- BUnified Ports
- CLAN Pin Groups
- DSystem QoS Policy
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To ensure a specific server within a Cisco UCS 5108 chassis receives dedicated 10G throughput to the LAN without contention, LAN Pin Groups are the appropriate technology.
Port-Channels aggregate multiple physical links to increase overall bandwidth and provide redundancy, but they do not inherently guarantee a dedicated 10G path for a single specific server free from contention.
Unified Ports on Cisco Fabric Interconnects offer the flexibility to operate as either Ethernet or Fibre Channel ports but do not directly provide a mechanism to dedicate throughput to a specific server.
LAN Pin Groups in Cisco UCS allow you to explicitly associate specific server-facing vNICs with particular physical uplinks on the Fabric Interconnects, thereby dedicating a 10G path to the upstream network for that server and preventing contention.
System QoS policies allow for traffic prioritization and bandwidth allocation among different traffic classes, but they reserve or manage portions of bandwidth rather than dedicating an entire 10G link exclusively to a single server's traffic.
Concept tested: Cisco UCS LAN Pin Groups for dedicated bandwidth
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/sw/gui/config/guide/3-1/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_3_1/b_UCSM_GUI_Configuration_Guide_3_1_chapter_0100.html
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