NS0-157 · Question #100
Clustered Data ONTAP supports ALUA with which protocols?
The correct answer is C. FC, FCoE and iSCSI only. Clustered Data ONTAP supports ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access) for FC, FCoE, and iSCSI, which are all SCSI-based SAN protocols capable of multipath optimization.
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Clustered Data ONTAP supports ALUA with which protocols?
Options
- AFC only
- BFC and FCoE only
- CFC, FCoE and iSCSI only
- DFC, FCoE, iSCSI and NFS only
How the community answered
(35 responses)- A6% (2)
- B3% (1)
- C89% (31)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Clustered Data ONTAP supports ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access) for FC, FCoE, and iSCSI, which are all SCSI-based SAN protocols capable of multipath optimization.
Limiting ALUA support to FC only ignores FCoE and iSCSI, which are also SCSI-based transports that support ALUA in clustered ONTAP.
Excluding iSCSI is incorrect because iSCSI encapsulates SCSI commands over TCP/IP and fully supports ALUA in clustered ONTAP.
ALUA is a T10 SCSI standard that allows hosts to identify optimized versus non-optimized paths to LUNs, enabling intelligent multipath I/O. FC, FCoE, and iSCSI are all SCSI transport protocols and therefore support ALUA for active-active path management in clustered ONTAP. NFS is a NAS protocol and does not use SCSI semantics, so it has no concept of ALUA.
NFS is a NAS protocol and does not use SCSI, so it does not support ALUA; including NFS makes this choice incorrect.
Concept tested: ALUA support across SAN protocols in ONTAP
Source: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/san-admin/selective-lun-map-concept.html
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