You are installing a new 2-node AFF A220 cluster running ONTAP 9.5. The customer would like to use the UTA2 adapters from the first controller to connect to the 10GbE front-end switches. On the second controller, they would like to use the first UTA2 port as a target FC port, and the second as an FC initiator. In this scenario, according to NetApp Best practices, what should your customer do?

You are installing a new 2-node AFF A220 cluster running ONTAP 9.5. The customer would like to use the UTA2 adapters from the first controller to connect to the 10GbE front-end switches. On the second controller, they would like to use the first UTA2 port as a target FC port, and the second as an FC initiator. In this scenario, according to NetApp Best practices, what should your customer do?

A. Change all the UTA2 ports from CNA mode to FC mode.

B. Change all the UTA2 ports to CNA to support both FC and Ethernet.

C. Change the first two ports of each controller to FC and the last two to CNA.

D. Change the UTA2 ports from CNA mode to FC mode on the first controller.

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Answer: C

Explanation:

Reference: https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP284266 7