You are deploying an SAP production landscape on Azure. You deploy virtual machines that have SAP Digital Boardroom and SAP HANA installed. You need to measure network latency between the virtual…

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Options

• ANetwork Performance Monitor
• Blometer
• CConnection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher
• DSockPerf

• A
  2% (1)
• C
  95% (57)
• D
  3% (2)

Explanation

Connection Monitor in Azure Network Watcher (C) is the correct tool because it is the native Azure service designed specifically to monitor network connectivity and measure latency between Azure resources - including VM-to-VM scenarios - with continuous monitoring and alerting capabilities that integrate with the Azure portal.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Network Performance Monitor): This was a legacy Log Analytics-based solution that has been deprecated by Microsoft in favor of Connection Monitor, making it the wrong choice for a current deployment.
• B (Iometer): This is a disk I/O benchmarking tool, not a network latency tool - it measures storage throughput, not network performance.
• D (SockPerf): While SockPerf is a valid Linux-based network latency tool (and is actually recommended by SAP/Microsoft for baseline latency testing), it requires manual setup and CLI execution rather than being an Azure-native monitoring solution. The question asks what to use for ongoing measurement in a deployed landscape, pointing toward the managed Azure service.

Memory tip: Think "Connection Monitor = connect + monitor" - it's Azure's built-in tool for continuously monitoring the connection (latency/reachability) between resources. If the question involves Azure-native, ongoing network health monitoring between VMs, Connection Monitor is your answer.

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