HPE0-V25 · Question #89
Your customer has instated multiple Host Bus Adapters in their server. What feature is now available to be configured?
The correct answer is B. multi-path load-balancing. Multiple HBAs create redundant physical paths between the server and storage devices (typically a SAN), and multi-path load-balancing (MPIO) is the feature that leverages those multiple paths to distribute I/O traffic and provide failover - you need more than one path before…
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Your customer has instated multiple Host Bus Adapters in their server. What feature is now available to be configured?
Options
- ATCP offload
- Bmulti-path load-balancing
- Cincreased ethernet frame size
- Ddata encryption
How the community answered
(21 responses)- A5% (1)
- B90% (19)
- D5% (1)
Explanation
Multiple HBAs create redundant physical paths between the server and storage devices (typically a SAN), and multi-path load-balancing (MPIO) is the feature that leverages those multiple paths to distribute I/O traffic and provide failover - you need more than one path before any balancing is possible.
Why the distractors are wrong:
- A (TCP offload) is a NIC feature that moves TCP/IP processing to network hardware - unrelated to HBAs or storage paths.
- C (Jumbo frames) is an Ethernet/NIC setting for larger packet sizes - again a network card concept, not HBA.
- D (Data encryption) can be implemented at many layers (software, drive firmware, switch) but is not something multiple HBAs specifically unlock.
Memory tip: Think "multiple HBAs = multiple paths = multi-path." An HBA is a storage adapter (not a NIC), so any correct answer must relate to storage connectivity - only multi-path load-balancing fits that category.
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