2V0-21.23 Question 271
Select 2You are setting up a new VMware ESXi host in your environment. During the configuration process, you are required to ensure high availability and redundancy for the management network. Which of the following steps should you perform to achieve this?
- A
Add multiple physical NICs to the vSwitch used for the management network.
- B
Enable vSphere High Availability (HA) on the cluster containing the ESXi host.
- C
Configure NIC teaming with an appropriate load-balancing policy for the management network.
- D
Use VLANs to separate management traffic from other network traffic.
- E
Enable SSH access to the ESXi host for troubleshooting.
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Correct answers: A, C
Explanation
To ensure high availability and redundancy for the management network, multiple physical NICs must be added to the management vSwitch, and NIC teaming should be configured with an appropriate load-balancing policy. These steps provide failover capabilities and prevent a single point of failure in the ESXi host's management network. Other options, while useful in different contexts, do not directly address the requirement for management network redundancy.
- A. Correct.
Adding multiple physical NICs to the vSwitch used for the management network provides redundancy in case one NIC fails. This is a recommended step for ensuring high availability of the management network.
- B. Incorrect.
Enabling vSphere High Availability (HA) is a cluster-level feature that protects VMs, not the management network. While HA is important for overall availability, it is unrelated to the redundancy of the management network.
- C. Correct.
Configuring NIC teaming with an appropriate load-balancing policy ensures both redundancy and improved performance for the management network. It is an important step in achieving high availability.
- D. Incorrect.
Using VLANs can help segregate traffic but does not directly ensure redundancy or high availability for the management network.
- E. Incorrect.
Enabling SSH access is useful for troubleshooting but does not contribute to network redundancy or availability.