An administrator is building a VM for a department in the company. The requirements for the department include: 1. Run multiple mission critical applications. 2. Generate and interpret large…

Configuring additional virtual NICs allows traffic for each mission-critical application to be isolated across separate network segments, providing the dedicated bandwidth and network-level separation required for reliable multi-application operation.

Additional memory (RAM) is essential for generating and interpreting large quantities of test data, as insufficient RAM forces the OS into excessive paging, causing severe and unacceptable performance degradation.

Port mapping redirects network traffic between addresses and ports for connectivity purposes and does not address the compute or memory resource needs of mission-critical applications.

OS licensing is a compliance requirement that is already addressed in a standard company VM template and has no effect on application performance or data processing capacity.

The standard template is assumed to provide a baseline of CPUs and storage; the specific bottlenecks for multi-application isolation and large-scale data processing are network capacity and memory, addressed by A and B.