NCP-MCI-6.10 · Question #32
An administrator wants to ensure that user VMs on AHV hosts can take advantage of bandwidth beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure to accomplish…
The correct answer is B. Active-Active. In Nutanix AHV, the Active-Active bond mode (equivalent to LACP/802.3ad or balance-slb) keeps all uplink adapters simultaneously active, distributing traffic across them. This allows aggregate bandwidth exceeding a single adapter's capacity. Active-Backup only uses one link at…
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An administrator wants to ensure that user VMs on AHV hosts can take advantage of bandwidth beyond a single adapter in a bond. Which uplink Bond Type should the administrator configure to accomplish this?
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- ANo Uplink Bond
- BActive-Active
- CActive-Active with MAC pinning
- DActive-Backup
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(26 responses)- A4% (1)
- B92% (24)
- C4% (1)
Explanation
In Nutanix AHV, the Active-Active bond mode (equivalent to LACP/802.3ad or balance-slb) keeps all uplink adapters simultaneously active, distributing traffic across them. This allows aggregate bandwidth exceeding a single adapter's capacity. Active-Backup only uses one link at a time (the other is standby), providing no bandwidth gain. Active-Active with MAC pinning assigns each VM's traffic to a specific uplink, so no individual VM or flow can exceed one adapter's bandwidth - it only distributes load across VMs, not within a single VM's traffic. No Uplink Bond uses a single adapter with no bonding at all. Active-Active without MAC pinning is the correct choice when the goal is to exceed single-adapter bandwidth.
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