2V0-13.25 · Question #52
An architect is designing a Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy for a Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment with a management domain and multiple workload domains deployed in…
The correct answer is B. Implement vSAN stretched cluster for the management domain and Live Recovery for the. To ensure zero RPO and high availability for the management domain, the best-fit design is to use a vSAN Stretched Cluster. With a 2ms latency and shared witness site, this design enables synchronous replication and automatic failover, ensuring no data loss (RPO 0) and minimal…
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An architect is designing a Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy for a Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment with a management domain and multiple workload domains deployed in two datacenters located in the same city. During one of the initial workshops with stakeholders, the following information was identified:
- The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for workloads is 24 hours.
- The management domain must remain continuously available with
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 0.
- Hardware overhead should be minimized by utilizing standby resources
that host test workloads during normal operation.
- Operational overhead should be minimized.
- Latency between both datacenters is 2 ms.
Which design decision should the architect document to satisfy provided requirements?
Options
- AUse VCF Automation to redeploy the entire environment in case of a failure.
- BImplement vSAN stretched cluster for the management domain and Live Recovery for the
- CBack up all workloads daily and store them in a central repository to meet RTO expectations.
- DUse asynchronous replication for both management and workload domains.
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A9% (2)
- B41% (9)
- C32% (7)
- D18% (4)
Explanation
To ensure zero RPO and high availability for the management domain, the best-fit design is to use a vSAN Stretched Cluster. With a 2ms latency and shared witness site, this design enables synchronous replication and automatic failover, ensuring no data loss (RPO 0) and minimal downtime. For the workload domains where 24-hour RTO is acceptable, Live Recovery (leveraging replication and automation like Site Recovery Manager or Aria Automation Orchestrator) can be used to minimize operational effort and still meet recovery timelines. This strategy also aligns with minimizing hardware overhead by using the standby test infrastructure as failover capacity.
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