Question

A hospital uses a legacy electronic medical record system that requires multicast for traffic between the application servers and databases on virtual hosts that support segments of the application. Following a switch upgrade, the electronic medical record is unavailable despite physical connectivity between the hypervisor and the storage being in place. The network team must enable multicast traffic to restore access to the electronic medical record. The ISM states that the network team must reduce the footprint of multicast traffic on the network.

VLAN DESCRIPTION
201 Server VLAN1
202 Server VLAN2
400 Hypervisor Management VLAN
680 Storage Management VLAN
700 Database Server VLAN

Using the above information, on which VLANs should multicast be enabled?

A. VLAN201, VLAN202, VLAN400
B. VLAN201, VLAN202, VLAN700
C. VLAN201, VLAN202, VLAN400, VLAN680, VLAN700
D. VLAN400, VLAN680, VLAN700

Answer 1

Multicast should be enabled on VLAN 201 (Server VLAN), VLAN 202 (Server VLAN), and VLAN 700 (Database Server VLAN) as these are directly involved with the operation of the electronic medical record system.

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the provided scenario, multicast traffic must be enabled on VLANs that support traffic between the application servers and databases for the electronic medical record system. Multicast should therefore be enabled on VLAN 201 (Server VLAN), VLAN 202 (Server VLAN), and VLAN 700 (Database Server VLAN), as these segments are directly related to the application's functionality. There is no indication that VLAN 400 (Hypervisor Management VLAN) or VLAN 680 (Storage Management VLAN) require multicast for the application's operation, and enabling multicast traffic on these VLANs does not appear necessary for the restoration of the electronic medical record system.

Multicast should be enabled on VLANs that directly involve the communication between application servers and databases. In this case, that would be VLAN201, VLAN202, VLAN400, and VLAN700. VLAN680, the Storage Management VLAN, may not be directly involved in the communication between application servers and databases, so enabling multicast on it might not be necessary for the described purpose.Therefore, the correct answer is:C. VLAN201, VLAN202, VLAN400, VLAN70