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2V0-622 · Question #287

An administrator wishes to enable network port mirroring based on source port. Which feature should be enabled?

The correct answer is B. ERSPAN. ERSPAN (Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer) enables port mirroring on a vSphere distributed switch by specifying source ports and encapsulating mirrored traffic for delivery across a Layer 3 network.

Section 2 – Configure and Administer vSphere 6.5 Networking

Question

An administrator wishes to enable network port mirroring based on source port. Which feature should be enabled?

Options

  • AvSphere standard switch port
  • BERSPAN
  • CNSX Virtual Wire
  • DVLAN

How the community answered

(24 responses)
  • B
    96% (23)
  • D
    4% (1)

Why each option

ERSPAN (Encapsulated Remote Switched Port Analyzer) enables port mirroring on a vSphere distributed switch by specifying source ports and encapsulating mirrored traffic for delivery across a Layer 3 network.

AvSphere standard switch port

vSphere standard switches do not support port mirroring sessions of any kind; port mirroring is only available on vSphere distributed switches.

BERSPANCorrect

ERSPAN is a distributed switch feature that encapsulates mirrored frames in GRE headers, allowing traffic from specified source ports to be forwarded to a remote monitoring station across a routed network. It is the only option among the choices that directly implements source-port-based mirroring at the virtual switch level.

CNSX Virtual Wire

NSX Virtual Wire is a network virtualization construct for creating overlay logical networks, not a mechanism for capturing or mirroring port traffic.

DVLAN

VLANs are a Layer 2 segmentation technique for separating broadcast domains and have no role in configuring or enabling port mirroring sessions.

Concept tested: ERSPAN source port mirroring on distributed switch

Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-networking/GUID-7E2B75A8-A5B7-4E5A-97D1-8BB7C3B2E6ED.html

Topics

#port mirroring#ERSPAN#distributed switch#network monitoring

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