NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer – ONTAP v3 — Question 25

You have an 8-node AFF A400 ONTAP 9.8 cluster that is serving FC and iSCSI LUNs. You have three SVMs for FC and one SVM for iSCSI, each for separate VMware vSphere clusters. The VMware clusters are on separate, non-routable, networks. You are asked to set up SnapCenter software for backups of the virtual machine datastores.
What is the minimum management LIF count that is needed to satisfy this requirement?

Answer options

• A. eight
• B. two
• C. four
• D. one

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C, as each SVM requires at least one management LIF for SnapCenter operations, totaling four for the three FC SVMs and one iSCSI SVM. The other options are insufficient because they do not provide enough management LIFs to accommodate all SVMs required for effective backups.