Which load-balancing policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel
networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make
sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks. Which load-balancing
policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual
machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

An administrator is creating a vSphere Standard Switch with virtual machine and VMkernel
networking. The administrator has two uplinks attached to the switch and wants to make
sure multiple sessions for a virtual machine can utilize both uplinks. Which load-balancing
policy will guarantee this requirement is met, even if additional management or virtual
machine traffic is added to the switch in the future?

A.
Route based on IP hash

B.
Route based on source MAC hash

C.
Route based on the originating port ID

D.
Use explicit failover.

Explanation:



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EMT64

If based on Port ID, the VM would use for all its sessions the same link.
The only true session loadbalancing is option A (based on IP hash)