NetEdit is a network management tool that allows you to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot ArubaOS-CX switches. You can use NetEdit to deploy a standard config to the switches, but you need to use a different feature than conformance validation tests. Conformance validation tests are used to check if the switches comply with a predefined set of rules or best practices, and to generate reports or alerts if any deviations are found1. They are not used to deploy configurations. To deploy a standard config that includes device-specific settings, you should use templates. Templates are files that contain configuration commands with variables that can be replaced with device-specific values when applied to the switches1. Therefore, this is not what you should do.

Work with the server admins to assign a consistent VLAN for VMs 1 and 4. Assign interface 1/1/2 on Switch-1 to the same VLAN is part of a valid configuration to meet the requirements for providing VXLAN services for several VMs and servers using ArubaOS-CX switches. VMs 1 and 4 belong to the same VXLAN segment (VNI 5010), so they should be assigned to the same VLAN on their respective hypervisors. Interface 1/1/2 on Switch-1 should also be assigned to the same VLAN as VMs 1 and 4, so that Switch-1 can act as a VTEP for them1.

Multi-tenancy is the ability to provide network services to multiple independent customers or tenants on a shared physical infrastructure. One of the challenges of multi-tenancy is to ensure isolation and security between different tenants, while also providing scalability and efficiency. Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a data center technology that can help meet these requirements by enabling multiple isolated Layer 3 domains, each with its own routing table, to share a physical network1. VRF allows different tenants to use overlapping IP addresses and routing protocols without interfering with each other. Therefore, this is a valid way that a data center technology can help meet requirements for multi-tenancy.

Switch-1 does not download its MAC forwarding table from Switch-2 when Switch-2 finishes booting. Switch-1 and Switch-2 are part of a VSX fabric, which is a high availability solution that provides redundancy and load balancing across a pair of switches1. When Switch-2 experiences a power failure, Switch-1 takes over the role of the primary member and continues to forward traffic1. When Switch-2 recovers, it synchronizes its configuration and state information from Switch-1, not the other way around1. The MAC forwarding table is part of the state information that is synchronized from the primary to the secondary member1.

Split-recovery mode is a feature of ArubaOS-CX that prevents traffic loss when the ISL goes out-of-sync and keepalive subsequently fails12. This can happen if the ISL is restored after a failure but the VSX nodes are not synchronized. Split-recovery mode enables the secondary switch to restore its VSX LAGs after 10 keepalive packets are missed, approximately 10 seconds after keepalive goes down2. This avoids a split brain situation where both switches act as primary and forward traffic independently, causing loops and duplicate packets1. Therefore, disabling split-recovery mode is not a use case for preventing split brain situations, and the correct answer is yes. For more information on split-recovery mode and VSX, refer to the Aruba Data Center Network Specialist (ADCNS) certification datasheet3 and the Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) Guide for your switch model2.