VMware vSAN Administrator (2025) — Question 18

An architect is responsible for designing a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)-based solution for a customer. The customer has the following requirement:
There should be no single points of failure within the solution.
To comply with the customer requirement, the architect has decided to include physical NIC teaming for all ESX servers in the design.
When documenting this design decision, which consideration should the architect make?

Answer options

• A. Only 10GbE NICs should be used for NIC teaming.
• B. Embedded NICs should not be used for NIC teaming.
• C. Each NIC team must include NICs from the same physical NIC Card.
• D. Each NIC team must include NICs from different physical NIC Cards.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D because to avoid a single point of failure, NICs in a team should come from different physical NIC cards. This ensures that if one NIC card fails, the other NICs can still maintain network connectivity. Options A, B, and C do not address the requirement of redundancy in the event of a failure.