An architect is designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based solution for a customer with the following requirement: - The solution must not have any single points of failure. To meet this…

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• AEmbedded NICs should be avoided for NIC teaming.
• BOnly 10GbE NICs should be utilized for NIC teaming.
• CEach NIC team must comprise NICs from the same physical NIC card.
• DEach NIC team must comprise NICs from different physical NIC cards.

• A
  7% (3)
• B
  15% (6)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  76% (31)

Explanation

In VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2, designing a solution with no single points of failure (SPOF) requires careful consideration of redundancy across all components, including networking. Physical NIC teaming on vSphere hosts is a common technique to ensure network availability by aggregating multiple network interface cards (NICs) to provide failover and load balancing. The architect's decision to use NIC teaming aligns with this goal, but the specific consideration for implementation must maximize fault tolerance. Requirement Analysis: No single points of failure: The networking design must ensure that the failure of any single hardware component (e.g., a NIC, cable, switch, or NIC card) does not disrupt connectivity to the Physical NIC teaming: This involves configuring multiple NICs into a team (typically via vSphere's vSwitch or Distributed Switch) to provide redundancy and potentially increased bandwidth.

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