350-601 Compute Practice Question
An engineer is deploying UCS B-series blades in a 5108 chassis connected to a pair of Fabric Interconnects. To ensure high availability, each blade's vNICs must be pinned to both FIs. Which configuration method should be used in the service profile to achieve this?
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Create a vNIC placement policy that assigns one vNIC to Fabric A and another vNIC to Fabric B, both without failover.
In UCS Manager, the vNIC placement policy determines how vNICs are assigned to fabric interconnects. Selecting 'fabric failover' allows a vNIC to fail over to the other FI, but for active-active use, multiple vNICs are needed. The correct approach is to use a vNIC placement policy that assigns each vNIC to a specific fabric without failover, combined with proper fabric pinning in the LAN connectivity policy.
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Configure each vNIC with fabric failover enabled, then assign the vNICs to the same fabric.
Why it's wrong here
Fabric failover enables failover to the other FI but does not provide active-active redundancy; vNIC placement policy is needed.
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Use the default vNIC template which automatically assigns vNICs to both fabrics.
Why it's wrong here
Default templates may not enforce pinning to both FIs; manual configuration is required.
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Enable fabric failover on the uplink ports of the Fabric Interconnects.
Why it's wrong here
Fabric failover on uplink ports is for FI-to-FI connectivity, not for blade vNIC redundancy.
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Create a vNIC placement policy that assigns one vNIC to Fabric A and another vNIC to Fabric B, both without failover.
Why this is correct
This provides active-active redundancy across both fabrics.
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