3V0-42.20 Exam Dumps : Advanced Design VMware NSX-T Data Center

Top of Rack Physical Switches

When configuring top of rack (ToR) switches, consider the following best practices:

- Configure redundant physical switches to enhance availability.

- Configure switch ports that connect to ESXi hosts manually as trunk ports. Virtual switches

are passive devices and do not support trunking protocols, such as Dynamic Trunking

Protocol (DTP).

- Modify the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on any port that is connected to an ESXi NIC to

reduce the time to transition ports over to the forwarding state, for example using the Trunk

PortFast feature found in a Cisco physical switch.

- Provide DHCP or DHCP Helper capabilities on all VLANs used by TEP VMkernel ports. This

setup simplifies the configuration by using DHCP to assign IP address based on the IP subnet

in use.

- Configure jumbo frames on all switch ports, inter-switch link (ISL), and switched virtual

interfaces (SVIs).

Uplink profiles within NSX-T shows that you can only use Load balance Source and Load balance Source MAC, failover order doesnt provide any load balancing or high throughput

Failover Order: Select an active uplink is specified along with an optional list of standby uplinks. If the active uplink fails, the next uplink in the standby list replaces the active uplink. No actual load balancing is performed with this option. Load Balance Source: Select a list of active uplinks. When you configure a transport node, you can pin each interface of the transport node to one active uplink. This configuration allows use of several active uplinks at the same time. Load Balance Source MAC Address: Select an uplink based on a hash of the source Ethernet.