A Customer Has Requested That You Provide Them with an Architecture

question 37

Multiple Choice

A customer has requested that you provide them with an architecture and bill-of-materials for a stack of top-of-rack switches. The customer has 34 HPE DL360 servers in the rack, each with four 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports which need to be connected to the network. The customer is upgrading 50% of the 1GBASE-T Ethernet ports on the servers to 10GBASE-T Ethernet ports and needs the switching to support the upgraded servers. They are opposed to a chassis switch, and want to keep the number of managed devices on the network to a minimum. Which architecture meets the customer requirements?

• A) One VSX stack of four Aruba 8320 48-port 1/10GBASE-T switches
• B) Two IRF stacks of two HPE 5710 48-port 1/10GBASE-T switches
• C) One IRF stack of four HPE 5710 48-port 1/10GBASE-T switches
• D) Two VSX stacks of two Aruba 8320 48-port 1/10GBASE-T switches

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