QuestionQ6

Network Virtualization

A Contrail cluster has been deployed and must support bare-metal servers.

Which protocol is used for communication between the bare-metal server's virtual tunnel endpoints and the Contrail cluster to establish sessions with VM servers?

  • A SRTP
  • B EVPN/VXLAN
  • C BGP
  • D XMPP
Explanation

EVPN/VXLAN provides the Layer 2 overlay connectivity for environments containing both virtual machines and bare-metal servers. VXLAN carries the encapsulated traffic between VTEPs, and EVPN supplies MAC-reachability signaling for the overlay.

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