300-420 Exam Dumps : Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) v1.1

Redundancy for Cisco vBond Orchestrators is normally achieved by mapping the IP addresses of multiple vBond instances to a single DNS name. WAN Edge devices use the configured organization name and vBond DNS name during onboarding to resolve and contact an available orchestrator. This design allows several vBond nodes to be deployed across different locations or availability zones while giving the edge device a consistent bootstrap target. If one vBond is unavailable, DNS resolution can return another reachable vBond address, allowing control-connection orchestration to continue. Selecting only the closest vBond is not the redundancy mechanism described here, and deploying a single vBond creates an avoidable single point of failure. The answer that says WAN Edge routers are configured with all orchestrators by IP address and priority does not represent the common DNS-based design model. In production, the DNS record, certificates, firewall policy, NAT behavior, and controller reachability should all be validated so that WAN Edge devices can reach multiple vBond instances during onboarding and after failures. Reference topics: Cisco SD-WAN controller redundancy, vBond DNS, device onboarding, orchestration availability.

Dual multihomed is the only listed WAN design that satisfies all failure conditions: CE, PE, ISP, and link failure. A single-homed design has one provider attachment and cannot survive most of those events. A single multihomed design uses more than one provider or provider connection, but if it still has only one customer edge device, a CE failure remains a single point of failure. A dual-homed design can provide multiple links to one provider, but it may not protect against a complete ISP failure. Dual multihoming combines redundant customer edge devices with connections to multiple provider edge devices and, typically, multiple providers. Cisco WAN and BGP design guidance uses multihoming to increase availability, control inbound and outbound path selection, and avoid dependence on a single provider path. This design gives the architect the necessary device, link, and provider diversity. Reference topics: WAN edge redundancy, BGP multihoming, dual-provider design, CE and PE resiliency, internet edge high availability.

The vSmart controller provides the centralized control plane in a Cisco SD-WAN deployment. It establishes secure control connections with WAN Edge routers and exchanges routing, topology, security, and policy information using OMP. The vSmart controller does not forward user data traffic; data-plane forwarding occurs directly between WAN Edge routers over IPsec or other supported encapsulations. Its function is to distribute reachability information, TLOC information, service routes, centralized policies, application-aware routing policies, and segmentation information that determines how the overlay operates. vBond orchestrates onboarding, authentication facilitation, and NAT traversal for control connections. vManage provides centralized management, monitoring, configuration templates, and operational GUI/API functions. vEdge or Cisco IOS XE SD-WAN routers provide the branch or site data plane and local routing functions. Therefore, among the choices, the vSmart controller is responsible for the centralized control plane of the SD-WAN network. Correctly separating orchestration, management, control, and data-plane roles is a core Cisco SD-WAN design principle.