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NCA-5.15 · Question #12

An administrator wants a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs. What steps should the administrator complete?

The correct answer is A. Add two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN. To allow a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs, the administrator must add two NICs to the VM - one connected to each VLAN. In Nutanix AHV (and most hypervisors), each vNIC is attached to a specific virtual network (subnet/VLAN). A single NIC cannot be natively configured…

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Question

An administrator wants a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs. What steps should the administrator complete?

Options

  • AAdd two NICs to the VM and configure one for each VLAN
  • BAdd a single NIC to the VM and configure it for both VLANs
  • CTurn on IPAM for autoconfiguration of VLANs
  • DConfigure a Security Policy to assign VLANs to the VM

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    85% (17)
  • B
    10% (2)
  • D
    5% (1)

Explanation

To allow a VM to communicate with two separate VLANs, the administrator must add two NICs to the VM - one connected to each VLAN. In Nutanix AHV (and most hypervisors), each vNIC is attached to a specific virtual network (subnet/VLAN). A single NIC cannot be natively configured for two separate VLANs without VLAN trunking at the guest OS level, which is complex and not a standard VM configuration. IPAM (B) handles IP address management but does not assign VLANs. Security Policies (D) control traffic filtering, not VLAN assignment.

Topics

#VM Networking#Virtual NICs#VLANs#Network Configuration

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