You plan to deploy an SAP production landscape that will use SAP HANA databases on Azure. The deployment has the following disaster recovery requirements: - Support Azure Site Recovery to a second…

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• AAzure Files premium tier
• BStorage Spaces Direct
• CAzure NetApp Files
• Dan NFS server that runs Windows Server 2019

• A
  9% (4)
• B
  15% (7)
• C
  77% (36)

Explanation

Azure NetApp Files (C) and an NFS server on Windows Server 2019 (D) both satisfy the requirements because they provide NFS-based network shares that Azure Site Recovery can protect. Azure NetApp Files supports native cross-region replication and is SAP HANA-certified, while a Windows Server 2019 NFS VM is a standard Azure VM that ASR can replicate to a secondary region and recover for DR testing. Azure Files premium (A) fails because Azure Site Recovery replicates VMs and their managed disks - it cannot replicate Azure Files storage accounts to another region, leaving the HANA data unprotected. Storage Spaces Direct (B) is a hyperconverged, local-disk clustering feature that doesn't expose a standalone network share and isn't supported by ASR for this SAP HANA DR pattern.

Memory tip: Think "ASR replicates VMs" - any storage solution that lives inside a VM (NFS server on Windows Server) or has its own built-in cross-region replication (Azure NetApp Files) works; solutions that are managed Azure services without ASR integration (Azure Files) or cluster-local disk pools (S2D) do not.

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