what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to Yes?

When configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to Yes?

When configuring the vSwitch NIC teaming policy, what happens when the Notify Switches option is set to Yes?

A.
The virtual switch is notified when the location of a physical NIC changes

B.
The physical switch is notified when the location of a virtual NIC changes

C.
The virtual switch is notified when the physical NIC link state changes

D.
The physical switch is notified when the virtual NIC link state changes

Explanation:
Mastering VMware vSphere, page 176.
A vSwitch includes a Notify Switches configuration setting, which when set to Yes, will allow the physical switch to immediately learn of any of the following changes:
A NIC team failover of failback has occurred.
When a NIC team member fails, or fails back, the virtual NIC connected to the switch will change.



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Gringo

Gringo

I think D is correct too.

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/virtual_networking_concepts.pdf

page 10
“whenever a virtual Ethernet adapter is connected to the virtual switch or whenever that virtual Ethernet adapter’s traffic would be routed over a dif-ferent physical Ethernet adapter in the team due to a failover event, a notification is sent out over the network to update the lookup tables on physical switches”

It says “whenever a virtual Ethernet adapter is connected to the virtual switch”, which is a virtual NIC change of link state (link up)