You have an SAP HANA on Azure (Large Instances) deployment that has two Type II SKU nodes. Each node is provisioned in a separate Azure region. You need to monitor storage replication for the…

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Options

• Axfsdump
• Bazacsnap
• Crear
• Dtar

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  85% (23)
• C
  7% (2)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

azacsnap (Azure Application Consistent Snapshot tool) is the correct answer because it is Microsoft's purpose-built tool for SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, providing storage snapshot management and - critically - the ability to monitor cross-region storage replication status between nodes, which is exactly what a two-node Type II SKU deployment requires.

The distractors are all general-purpose Linux backup/archival utilities with no Azure or SAP HANA awareness: xfsdump is an XFS filesystem backup tool, rear (Relax-and-Recover) is a disaster recovery framework for bare-metal system backup, and tar is a basic file archiving utility - none of these can interact with Azure storage replication infrastructure.

Memory tip: Think of azacsnap as "Azure's SAP snapshot watchdog" - the az prefix signals it's Azure-native, and it's the only option in this list that actually speaks the language of Azure storage and HANA.

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