1Y0-401 · Question #118
Why would having one farm with three configured sites, with one Provisioning Services server in each datacenter, meet the requirements of a regional, single-image management strategy with minimal…
The correct answer is B. It ensures that Provisioning Services targets will NOT load balance across regions, and reduces. This configuration with one PVS server per datacenter, within separate sites in a single farm, ensures PVS targets stay regional, reducing WAN traffic for single-image management.
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- AIt ensures that Provisioning Services targets will NOT load balance between hosts and ensures high
- BIt ensures that Provisioning Services targets will NOT load balance across regions, and reduces
- CIt ensures that Provisioning Services targets will NOT load balance between hosts and ensures high
- DIt ensures that Provisioning Services targets will NOT load balance across regions, guarantees high
How the community answered
(39 responses)- A13% (5)
- B79% (31)
- C5% (2)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
This configuration with one PVS server per datacenter, within separate sites in a single farm, ensures PVS targets stay regional, reducing WAN traffic for single-image management.
The statement 'NOT load balance between hosts' is incorrect as PVS typically load balances among available servers within its site or subnet; ensuring high availability is a benefit, but not the primary reason for minimal WAN traffic in this specific setup.
Having one PVS server per datacenter within a single farm but separate sites ensures targets in one datacenter only connect to their local PVS server, preventing load balancing across regional WAN links and significantly reducing cross-datacenter WAN traffic.
Similar to A, 'NOT load balance between hosts' misrepresents typical PVS load balancing within a site, and while high availability is a consideration, it's not the core reason for minimizing WAN traffic across datacenters.
While it correctly states that PVS targets will NOT load balance across regions, the phrase 'guarantees high availability' is an overstatement for a configuration with only one PVS server per datacenter, as a single server failure would lead to an outage for its datacenter.
Concept tested: Citrix PVS multi-site WAN optimization
Source: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/current-release/architecture/multi-site-pvs.html
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