Which statement about VSX design is correct?

• A. VSX Inter-Switch Link must be implemented using direct links between peers.
• B. VSX peer keepalive can be implemented over a VSX LAG.
• C. VSX Inter-Switch Link can be implemented over indirect links.
• D. VSX peer keepalive links only supports 40G and 100G ports.

Waratah Hospital, located in Australia, plans to relocate many data-center services to a new facility. (The remaining legacy data center is outside this project's scope.) Waratah Hospital has engaged an external consultant to help design the new data-center network.
Based on the data-center network-infrastructure requirements, the external consultant has produced a high- level design. The design document is summarized below.
Requirements and information:
Six racks in the data-center room (a single row).
Redundant top-of-rack leaf switches with back-to-front cooling in every rack, delivering 10/25 Gbps connectivity to servers, storage, and other devices.
Four 100 GbE uplinks per leaf switch.
The customer requested that all switch ports face the rear of the racks (the hot aisle).
OOB management for servers, storage, and network devices must be delivered through an external switch with back-to-front cooling. This switch must be included in the solution. One OOB switch provides connectivity for two racks.
Core equipment for the OOBM network is being reused.
Middle-of-row spine switches.
The data center must connect to the hospital building through links providing 400 Gbps.
Internet access is supplied through an existing firewall cluster with two firewalls, one in each data room. The second firewall operates in standby mode, and VRRP is used for firewall failover. The data-center network must connect to these firewalls with links totaling 100 Gbps.
The external link is a single-mode-fiber (OS2) dark-fiber direct link. The distance to the main hospital is 1.5 KM. The links will terminate on two core switches in the hospital.
The customer also requires:
99.999% uptime for this life-critical environment.
Planned and unplanned downtime must be minimized.
Software upgrades are permitted only once per year, with close to zero downtime.
All life-critical resources are accessed locally, and all resources are within the hospital campus.
Waratah Hospital requires a highly secure data-center environment. Encrypted wire-speed connectivity between the data room and the hospital is mandatory because the link between the buildings crosses a public road.
Waratah Hospital has a mix of virtualized (vSphere) servers, Nutanix storage, bare-metal servers, backup servers, and other devices.
Previously, the hospital experienced a security breach that caused data loss, network downtime, and identity theft.
Refer to the scenario. You are deciding between the CX 9300 and CX 8325 switches for the border leaf switches. Which hard customer requirement affects this decision?

• A. The bandwidth requirements on the links to the hospital
• B. Hardware encryption on the links to the hospital
• C. The mixed speed requirements to connect to both the hospital and the internet firewall
• D. The need to minimize downtime during software upgrades

You are presenting your solution to a customer. What is important to include in the presentation?

• A. tangible and intangible returns for the customer
• B. your experience with this kind of project
• C. your rollback plan
• D. The protocols that will be used to make your solution work.

You have designed an L3 spine-and-leaf topology for a customer's highly virtualized VMware vSphere data center. The customer already uses HPE Aruba Networking mobility and switching solutions in the campus.
You are recommending CX 8325 and CX 9300 switches and Fabric Composer. The customer asks you to justify the cost of the Fabric Composer licenses.
What should you explain?

• A. This solution ' s integration with ITSMs such as ServiceNow helps customers troubleshoot more quickly.
• B. This solution uses agentic AI to run the network automatically, reducing IT operational costs.
• C. This solution enables the customer to monitor the data center and campus solutions from the same cloud console, eliminating travel costs.
• D. This solution ' s deep integration with vSphere saves IT time and eliminates costly errors with features like automatic VLAN provisioning.