CV0-002 · Question #349
An organization has multiple blade servers that are managed individually. The organization wants to unify the compute infrastructure and present it as a single unit. Which of the following is…
The correct answer is C. Multipathing. To unify multiple blade servers into a single, resilient compute infrastructure, multipathing is implemented to ensure high availability and performance for shared storage access.
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An organization has multiple blade servers that are managed individually. The organization wants to unify the compute infrastructure and present it as a single unit. Which of the following is implemented to allow this?
Options
- ADatacenter bridging
- BResource pooling
- CMultipathing
- DLoad balancing
How the community answered
(59 responses)- A14% (8)
- B7% (4)
- C76% (45)
- D3% (2)
Why each option
To unify multiple blade servers into a single, resilient compute infrastructure, multipathing is implemented to ensure high availability and performance for shared storage access.
Datacenter bridging standardizes network protocols over Ethernet for convergence, which is distinct from unifying compute infrastructure.
Resource pooling combines logical compute resources, but multipathing is a foundational I/O technology that provides physical path redundancy required for robust shared storage in a unified compute environment.
In a unified blade server compute infrastructure, such as a cluster, servers often rely on shared storage; multipathing provides redundant data paths to this shared storage, ensuring high availability and performance essential for the compute resources to function as a resilient single unit.
Load balancing distributes network traffic across multiple servers and does not unify the underlying compute infrastructure itself into a single logical unit.
Concept tested: Storage multipathing in blade server environments
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/multipath-io/overview
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