VMware Cloud Director Specialist (2022) — Question 97

A VCF architect collected the following requirements when designing the expansion of a new VI Workload Domain with twenty-four vSAN Ready nodes, each with a dual-port 25Gbps network interface card:
Provide scalable high-performance networking with layer-3 termination at top-of-rack
Protect workloads from switch/NIC/rack failure
Provide isolation for DMZ workloads
Provide at-least 25Gbps dedicated bandwidth to backup traffic
Easily accept workloads on traditional VLAN-backed networks

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Which three design considerations meet all of these requirements? (Choose three.)

Answer options

• A. Core Aggregation network topology
• B. Spine and Leaf network topology with layer-3 at top of rack
• C. Two-node Edge Cluster with ECMP
• D. Stretched Clustering
• E. Spine and Leaf network topology with layer-3 at Spine
• F. Two-node Edge Cluster with BFD

Correct answer: B, C, F

Explanation

The correct options B, C, and F address the requirements effectively. Option B provides scalable high-performance networking with layer-3 termination at the top-of-rack. Option C offers redundancy and load balancing through ECMP, while option F ensures fast failover with BFD. Options A, D, and E do not fully meet all requirements for scalability, redundancy, and isolation.