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Which two are benefits of Cisco Unified Fabric? (Choose two )

The correct answer is B. reduced cabling D. consolidation of LAN and SAN over a common transport. Cisco Unified Fabric significantly reduces cabling complexity and achieves cost savings by converging LAN and SAN traffic onto a single, common Ethernet-based transport.

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Question

Which two are benefits of Cisco Unified Fabric? (Choose two )

Options

  • ASNMPv3 strong authentication
  • Breduced cabling
  • Czone port distribution
  • Dconsolidation of LAN and SAN over a common transport
  • Enative AES-256 encryption of data in flight

How the community answered

(55 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    91% (50)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • E
    2% (1)

Why each option

Cisco Unified Fabric significantly reduces cabling complexity and achieves cost savings by converging LAN and SAN traffic onto a single, common Ethernet-based transport.

ASNMPv3 strong authentication

While SNMPv3 offers strong authentication and is supported by Cisco devices, it is a general networking security feature and not a unique benefit defining Cisco Unified Fabric's convergence.

Breduced cablingCorrect

Cisco Unified Fabric reduces the number of physical cables needed in the data center by converging traditionally separate LAN and SAN networks onto a single Ethernet infrastructure.

Czone port distribution

Zone port distribution (zoning) is a Fibre Channel concept for access control, which FCoE integrates, but it is not a direct benefit of the unification aspect of the fabric itself.

Dconsolidation of LAN and SAN over a common transportCorrect

A primary benefit of Cisco Unified Fabric is the consolidation of both LAN (Ethernet) and SAN (Fibre Channel) traffic over a single, common transport layer, typically using technologies like FCoE.

Enative AES-256 encryption of data in flight

Native AES-256 encryption of data in flight is a security feature, often implemented at higher layers or with specific hardware, and is not a core, differentiating benefit of the unified fabric architecture.

Concept tested: Cisco Unified Fabric Benefits

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/sw/nx-os/unified_fabric/fcoe/fcoe_config_guide/fcoe_chapter_01.html

Topics

#Unified Fabric#LAN/SAN convergence#reduced cabling#data center

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