An administrator has built a web farm to serve a geographically disperse community. Session state persistence has been enabled. Which of the following could be implemented to optimize LAN transmit…

The correct answer is C. Multipathing. Multipathing (C) allows a server to use multiple physical network paths simultaneously, effectively aggregating bandwidth across those links and increasing LAN throughput. In a web farm where servers communicate heavily (especially when replicating session state data)…

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An administrator has built a web farm to serve a geographically disperse community. Session state persistence has been enabled. Which of the following could be implemented to optimize LAN transmit speeds?

Options

AZoning
BHTTP compression
CMultipathing
DContent switching

How the community answered

(49 responses)

A
6% (3)
B
2% (1)
C
82% (40)
D
10% (5)

Explanation

Multipathing (C) allows a server to use multiple physical network paths simultaneously, effectively aggregating bandwidth across those links and increasing LAN throughput. In a web farm where servers communicate heavily (especially when replicating session state data), multipathing (implemented via NIC teaming, link aggregation, or MPIO) prevents any single link from becoming a bottleneck and boosts raw LAN transmit speeds. Zoning (A) is a SAN/storage concept used to segment Fibre Channel fabrics, not LAN traffic optimization. HTTP compression (B) reduces the size of data sent to clients over WAN/internet connections, but it does not increase LAN speed between servers. Content switching (D) intelligently routes requests to the most appropriate server based on content type, which improves distribution but does not increase LAN transmit speed. Multipathing directly addresses LAN throughput optimization.

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#multipathing#LAN optimization#web farm#session persistence

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