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CV0-003 · Question #128

Fault tolerant design allows a host to overcome a single HBA failure through:

The correct answer is A. clustering. Clustering provides host-level fault tolerance by allowing workloads to fail over to a surviving cluster node when a host's HBA fails, maintaining service continuity.

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Question

Fault tolerant design allows a host to overcome a single HBA failure through:

Options

  • Aclustering
  • BUTA pairing
  • Cmultipathing
  • DNIC teaming

How the community answered

(21 responses)
  • A
    86% (18)
  • B
    10% (2)
  • D
    5% (1)

Why each option

Clustering provides host-level fault tolerance by allowing workloads to fail over to a surviving cluster node when a host's HBA fails, maintaining service continuity.

AclusteringCorrect

Clustering groups multiple hosts so that if one host suffers an HBA failure, the cluster automatically redirects and restarts workloads on a healthy node, effectively overcoming the single point of failure and maintaining availability without interruption.

BUTA pairing

UTA (Unified Target Adapter) pairing is a configuration method for converged network adapters and does not provide fault tolerance mechanisms for HBA failures.

Cmultipathing

Multipathing provides redundant I/O paths between a single host and storage at the fabric level, but is a path-redundancy mechanism rather than a host-level fault tolerance solution that overcomes a complete HBA failure.

DNIC teaming

NIC teaming provides Ethernet network interface redundancy for LAN connectivity, not fault tolerance for HBA failures in a storage fabric.

Concept tested: Host fault tolerance through clustering

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/failover-clustering-overview

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#fault tolerance#HBA failure#multipathing#high availability

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