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What feature is a benefit of using Cisco UCS blade servers for data center virtualization?
The correct answer is B. converged LAN and SAN infrastructure. Cisco UCS blade servers use Fabric Interconnects to merge LAN and SAN traffic into a single unified fabric, eliminating separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel infrastructure.
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What feature is a benefit of using Cisco UCS blade servers for data center virtualization?
Options
- Aguest VM high availability
- Bconverged LAN and SAN infrastructure
- Chost based etherchannel
- Dbuilt-in hypervisor
How the community answered
(28 responses)- A4% (1)
- B93% (26)
- C4% (1)
Why each option
Cisco UCS blade servers use Fabric Interconnects to merge LAN and SAN traffic into a single unified fabric, eliminating separate Ethernet and Fibre Channel infrastructure.
Guest VM high availability is a feature provided by the hypervisor and cluster management software (such as VMware HA), not a specific benefit of UCS blade hardware itself.
Cisco UCS uses a unified fabric architecture where the Fabric Interconnects and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) consolidate both LAN (Ethernet) and SAN (Fibre Channel/FCoE) connectivity into a single physical infrastructure. This reduces cabling complexity, the number of adapters per blade, and the number of upstream switches required.
Host-based EtherChannel is a standard NIC teaming feature available on most servers and is not a distinguishing benefit of the UCS platform.
Cisco UCS blades do not include a built-in hypervisor; a hypervisor such as VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V must be installed separately.
Concept tested: Cisco UCS converged LAN and SAN unified fabric
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/servers-unified-computing/ucs-b-series-blade-servers/index.html
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