A Customer Needs a Solution for a Rack of Servers

question 62

Multiple Choice

A customer needs a solution for a rack of servers. They need connectivity for 14 HPE DL380 servers, which each have two 10-GBASE-T Ethernet ports, and 10 HPE DL360 servers, which have two 10GBASE-X SFP+ Ethernet ports. They need switch redundancy for each server and want to connect all servers to the same switch stack. The client also needs a 400 Gb backbone connection to the data center core switch from the solution you are creating. Which architecture meets the customer requirements?

• A) One VSX stack of two Aruba 8320 48-port 1/10GBASE-X SFP+ switches with the following: 14 10GBASE-T transceivers in each switch 10 SFP+ to SFP+ DACs in each switch Two QSFP+ to Quad SFP+ adapters
• B) One IRF stack of wo HPE 5945 2-Slot switches each with the following: One 24-Port SFP28 + 2-Port QSFP28 module One 24-Port 1/10GBASE-T + 2-Port QSFP+ module
• C) One IRF stack of two HPE 5945 48-port 1/10GBASE-X SFP+ switches with the following:
• D) One VSX stack of two Aruba 8325 48-port 1/10GBASE-X SFP+ switches with the following:

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