A city clerk’s office is scaling vSmart controllers and needs a clear data-plane versus control-plane boundary. Which statement is correct?
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Short Explanation
vSmarts are air-traffic control, not the airplanes—they hand out routes and policies, but user packets still fly through WAN Edges. Scaling more vSmarts does not mean they suddenly haul library or clerk traffic. If someone says the controller forwards the data plane, send them back to the architecture diagram.
Full Explanation
vSmart controllers maintain OMP sessions with Edges, advertise routes, and push centralized policies; they are control/policy plane elements. User traffic is encapsulated and forwarded by WAN Edge data planes between sites. Designs that assume vSmarts terminate branch data-plane IPsec for all users misunderstand the architecture. NetFlow storage is not the vSmart’s primary role; route and policy distribution is.