350-601 Storage Network Practice Question
An iSCSI storage array is being deployed with two network interfaces for redundancy. The hosts also have two iSCSI initiators. To ensure load balancing and failover, which feature should be configured?
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MPIO
Multipath I/O (MPIO) allows multiple paths between initiator and target for redundancy and load balancing.
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MPIO
Why this is correct
MPIO enables the use of multiple physical paths for I/O to achieve failover and load balancing.
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Jumbo frames
Why it's wrong here
Jumbo frames improve throughput but do not provide redundancy.
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VLAN tagging
Why it's wrong here
VLAN tagging segments traffic but does not provide multipath capabilities.
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CHAP authentication
Why it's wrong here
CHAP provides security, not multipath.
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