An administrator has a virtualization environment that includes a vSAN and iSCSI switching. Which of the
following actions could the administrator take to improve the performance of data transfers over iSCSI
switches?

A.
The administrator should configure the switch ports to auto-negotiate the proper Ethernet settings.

B.
The administrator should configure each vSAN participant to have its own VLAN.

C.
The administrator should connect the iSCSI switches to each other over inter-switch links (ISL).

D.
The administrator should set the MTU to 9000 on the each of the participants in the vSAN.

Explanation:
When using an iSCSI SAN (with iSCSI switching), we can improve network performance by enabling ‘jumbo
frames’. A jumbo frame is a frame with an MTU of more than 1500. By setting the MTU to 9000, there will be
fewer but larger frames going over the network. Enabling jumbo frames can improve network performance by
making data transmissions more efficient. The CPUs on switches and routers can only process one frame at a
time. By putting a larger payload into each frame, the CPUs have fewer frames to process.