During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:
There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.
Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.
All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.
Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?

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During a requirements gathering workshop to design a physical to virtual migration, the customer provides the following information:

There is no physical firewall in the data center with no anticipated plans for a future network refresh.

Leveraging the virtual infrastructure to mitigate the lack of network security must be addressed in the design.

All physical servers to be migrated exist on the same VLAN.

Which recommendation should the architect make to address the customer requirement with regard to virtual networking?

Susan Brady · Accepted Answer

Enable traffic filtering and markingUse allow or drop actions

Susan Brady · Answer

Split the virtual machines into several VLANsUse tag actions

Susan Brady · Answer

Create port groups with different names and same VLAN IDsEnable traffic shaping for ingress and egress traffic

Susan Brady · Answer

Disable traffic filtering and marking Use tag actions

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