A technician is installing a hypervisor on a host system with a single physical NIC that runs a high-bandwidth network application. The host NIC is running at optimum bandwidth and cannot support additional network traffic. The technician will be configuring eight networked VMs that will be interconnected and on their own dedicated virtual subnet separate from the existing physical LAN subnet.
When networking the VMs, what will the technician need to do to guarantee that the host network's performance is not affected without adding complexity or additional cost to the host configuration?
A) Connect each VM to a different physical switch port on the LAN subnet.
B) Install one new physical NIC for each VM.
C) Isolate all VM virtual NICs from the physical NIC.
D) Connect only the VMs that are running on the host's physical NIC.

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Isolating all VM virtual NICs from the physical NIC ensures that the VMs can communicate with each other on their own virtual subnet without impacting the bandwidth of the host's physical NIC. This approach does not require additional hardware or complex configurations, thus not adding complexity or cost.

A Technician Is Installing a Hypervisor on a Host System