Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a multi-server Provisioning Services solution for CGE. The solution must be highly available and minimize the risk of vDisk inconsistency. How should the…

RAID 0 (Striping) offers excellent performance but provides no fault tolerance, meaning a single disk failure results in complete data loss, which is unacceptable for critical vDisk storage.

RAID 1 (Mirroring) provides fault tolerance by duplicating data, but its write performance is limited and read performance is typically not as high as RAID 10, making it less optimal for high-performance vDisk demands.

Implementing high-speed local storage with deduplication focuses on space efficiency and potentially read caching, but deduplication itself does not inherently provide fault tolerance or directly enhance raw I/O performance in the same way as RAID levels like RAID 10.

RAID 10 (Striping with Mirroring) combines the performance benefits of RAID 0 (striping) with the fault tolerance of RAID 1 (mirroring), making it an ideal choice for high-I/O applications like Provisioning Services vDisk storage that require both speed and data redundancy.