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Which two physical components can enable high availability on a Cisco 6500 device? (Choose two.)
The correct answer is A. dual supervisor modules D. redundant power supplies. Dual supervisor modules and redundant power supplies are the primary physical hardware components that directly enable high availability on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 platform.
Question
Which two physical components can enable high availability on a Cisco 6500 device? (Choose two.)
Options
- Adual supervisor modules
- Bbundled Ethernet Interconnects
- Cline modules with DFCs
- Dredundant power supplies
- EVSS interlink cables
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A94% (30)
- B3% (1)
- E3% (1)
Why each option
Dual supervisor modules and redundant power supplies are the primary physical hardware components that directly enable high availability on the Cisco Catalyst 6500 platform.
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 supports dual supervisor engines in active/standby or stateful switchover (SSO) mode, so if the active supervisor fails, the standby supervisor takes over with minimal or no disruption to traffic forwarding.
Bundled Ethernet interconnects are not a standard Cisco 6500 high-availability component; this term relates to link aggregation concepts and not a specific 6500 HA hardware feature.
Distributed Forwarding Cards (DFCs) on line modules enhance distributed hardware forwarding performance but are a performance scaling feature, not a high-availability component designed to provide redundancy during failures.
Redundant power supplies allow the Cisco 6500 to continue operating if a single power supply fails, preventing a complete chassis outage due to a power component failure and providing true hardware-level power redundancy.
VSS interlink cables are required for a Virtual Switching System configuration that combines two 6500 chassis into a single logical switch, which is a specific design topology, not a standalone physical HA component of a single chassis.
Concept tested: Cisco Catalyst 6500 physical high-availability components
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/prod_bulletin0900aecd806b0ac5.html
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