“staged acceptance records show network and storage passes before benchmark comparison” addresses performance tuning precedes dependency validation and obscures the acceptance baseline, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is deployment exceptions have no accountable acceptance and closeout authority. The option “exception register resolves or formally accepts every issue before production approval” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“discovered BMC and PCIe identities match a newly approved asset change record” addresses physical substitution bypassed asset reconciliation and deployment change control, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is deployment exceptions have no accountable acceptance and closeout authority. The option “exception register resolves or formally accepts every issue before production approval” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“separate feed-interruption tests leave the required chassis powered within approved limits” addresses commissioning steps were executed before power readiness and safe acceptance, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is deployment exceptions have no accountable acceptance and closeout authority. The option “exception register resolves or formally accepts every issue before production approval” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“dual-home each required leaf to diverse spine paths” addresses leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “design sufficient fabric bandwidth across leaf and spine tiers for collective workloads” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“select topology placements and qualified optics appropriate for measured distances” addresses physical building distances were ignored in network topology design, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “design sufficient fabric bandwidth across leaf and spine tiers for collective workloads” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“segregate management routing policies from workload forwarding and authentication” addresses out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “design sufficient fabric bandwidth across leaf and spine tiers for collective workloads” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“cross-pod training reaches the accepted transport bandwidth target” addresses the inter-pod collective data path has an inappropriate capacity bottleneck, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “distributed NCCL runs meet the approved inter-rack bandwidth floor” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“measured switch port capacity and sustained flows agree with the approved ratio” addresses the claimed topology disregards measurable uplink oversubscription, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “distributed NCCL runs meet the approved inter-rack bandwidth floor” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” addresses leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic. The option “distributed NCCL runs meet the approved inter-rack bandwidth floor” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

Useful for server-to-fabric port assignment is inconsistent with the rail topology, but it does not remove the specific condition: the network design has a hidden common failure domain.

“select topology placements and qualified optics appropriate for measured distances” addresses physical building distances were ignored in network topology design, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is the network design has a hidden common failure domain. The option “place independent fabric rails on separate physical switch and power domains” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“calculate and document the leaf-to-spine oversubscription against workload demand” addresses the claimed topology disregards measurable uplink oversubscription, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is the network design has a hidden common failure domain. The option “place independent fabric rails on separate physical switch and power domains” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” addresses leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is the network design has a hidden common failure domain. The option “failure of one spine leaves the prescribed alternate collective path operational” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“cross-pod training reaches the accepted transport bandwidth target” addresses the inter-pod collective data path has an inappropriate capacity bottleneck, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is the network design has a hidden common failure domain. The option “failure of one spine leaves the prescribed alternate collective path operational” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“physical port inventory and rail-specific connectivity tests match the plan” addresses server-to-fabric port assignment is inconsistent with the rail topology, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is the network design has a hidden common failure domain. The option “failure of one spine leaves the prescribed alternate collective path operational” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“put storage traffic on correctly sized and protected data interfaces” addresses bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “segregate management routing policies from workload forwarding and authentication” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“capacity-plan the relevant gateway and enforce traffic-class isolation” addresses independent internal rails do not protect the external choke point, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “segregate management routing policies from workload forwarding and authentication” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“calculate and document the leaf-to-spine oversubscription against workload demand” addresses the claimed topology disregards measurable uplink oversubscription, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “segregate management routing policies from workload forwarding and authentication” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“simultaneous checkpoint tests do not congest BMC or management reachability” addresses bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “test traffic from a compute tenant cannot reach protected BMC management ports” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” addresses leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “test traffic from a compute tenant cannot reach protected BMC management ports” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“cross-pod training reaches the accepted transport bandwidth target” addresses the inter-pod collective data path has an inappropriate capacity bottleneck, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path. The option “test traffic from a compute tenant cannot reach protected BMC management ports” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

Useful for out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path, but it does not remove the specific condition: bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path.

“calculate and document the leaf-to-spine oversubscription against workload demand” addresses the claimed topology disregards measurable uplink oversubscription, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path. The option “put storage traffic on correctly sized and protected data interfaces” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“place independent fabric rails on separate physical switch and power domains” addresses the network design has a hidden common failure domain, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path. The option “put storage traffic on correctly sized and protected data interfaces” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“test traffic from a compute tenant cannot reach protected BMC management ports” addresses out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path. The option “simultaneous checkpoint tests do not congest BMC or management reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” addresses leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path. The option “simultaneous checkpoint tests do not congest BMC or management reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“simultaneous jobs keep latency and throughput inside accepted service bounds” addresses independent internal rails do not protect the external choke point, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path. The option “simultaneous checkpoint tests do not congest BMC or management reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“design sufficient fabric bandwidth across leaf and spine tiers for collective workloads” addresses oversubscribed aggregation cannot carry expected East-West collective traffic, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective. The option “dual-home each required leaf to diverse spine paths” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“segregate management routing policies from workload forwarding and authentication” addresses out-of-band management exposure was not isolated from the data path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective. The option “dual-home each required leaf to diverse spine paths” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

Useful for the inter-pod collective data path has an inappropriate capacity bottleneck, but it does not remove the specific condition: leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective.

“failure of one spine leaves the prescribed alternate collective path operational” addresses the network design has a hidden common failure domain, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective. The option “a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“cross-pod training reaches the accepted transport bandwidth target” addresses the inter-pod collective data path has an inappropriate capacity bottleneck, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective. The option “a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.

“simultaneous checkpoint tests do not congest BMC or management reachability” addresses bulk storage data was placed on a low-bandwidth operational control path, but the current hardware or infrastructure issue is leaf-spine connectivity does not meet the stated path redundancy objective. The option “a controlled uplink failure preserves the permitted worker-to-worker reachability” is more directly tied to the required outcome.