2V0-622D · Question #103
Which system traffic type cannot be configured with Network I/O Control (NIOC) bandwith allocation?
The correct answer is D. Software FCoE Adapter traffic. Network I/O Control (NIOC) cannot allocate bandwidth for Software FCoE Adapter traffic, as that traffic type is excluded from NIOC management.
Question
Which system traffic type cannot be configured with Network I/O Control (NIOC) bandwith allocation?
Options
- AVirtual SAN traffic
- BESXi host Management traffic
- CvSphere Replication traffic
- DSoftware FCoE Adapter traffic
How the community answered
(27 responses)- A7% (2)
- C4% (1)
- D89% (24)
Why each option
Network I/O Control (NIOC) cannot allocate bandwidth for Software FCoE Adapter traffic, as that traffic type is excluded from NIOC management.
Virtual SAN traffic is a fully supported NIOC system traffic type and can have bandwidth shares and reservations configured on a vSphere Distributed Switch.
ESXi host Management traffic is a supported NIOC traffic type and can be assigned bandwidth allocation through NIOC policies.
vSphere Replication traffic is a supported NIOC system traffic type that can be controlled with bandwidth allocation settings.
Software FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) uses a software adapter that does not support NIOC bandwidth allocation because the FCoE traffic path bypasses the vSphere Distributed Switch mechanisms that NIOC relies on to enforce bandwidth shares and limits.
Concept tested: Network I/O Control unsupported system traffic types
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/com.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc/GUID-39B98853-0A3B-4C23-B47E-8BF0CD64CAE9.html
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