Refer to the exhibit. An engineer is presented with a VMWare ESX cluster consisting of two VMWare ESX hosts running Nexus 1000v. The guest system inventory consists of 100 static virtual desktops…

Increasing the subnet size on the core switch only impacts available IP addresses, not the number of virtual ports allowed to be active on the Nexus 1000V for a given VLAN.

The `max-ports` setting on a Cisco Nexus 1000V defines the maximum number of active virtual Ethernet interfaces (vEth interfaces) allowed for a specific VLAN; increasing this for VLAN 10 will permit more VMs to connect.

While a global `max-ports` setting might exist, the more granular and direct configuration for limiting VMs on a specific VLAN is the VLAN-specific `max-ports` setting, which is the direct cause of the issue.

The question states all 100 static virtual desktops are on VLAN 10; therefore, increasing the `max-ports` setting for VLAN 20 is irrelevant to the problem.