A company is implementing a private cloud infrastructure and is testing its high availability components. In a planned outage test, all systems will be shut down sequentially. Which of the following…

An offsite mirror is primarily for disaster recovery and would typically be shut down much earlier or left running to maintain replication readiness, as it's not part of the active operational infrastructure's primary shutdown sequence.

Networking components must remain operational to allow communication for virtual machines and hypervisors to shut down gracefully and for storage systems to complete their operations.

Hypervisors host all the virtual machines and applications running within the private cloud infrastructure. These virtual machines require network connectivity and access to storage to function correctly and shut down gracefully. Therefore, the hypervisors, as the last components to contain active workloads, are shut down after networking and storage have facilitated the graceful termination of all services and virtual machines.

Storage systems must remain available until all virtual machines have completed their graceful shutdown process, as VMs require access to their disks to save state or flush data before termination, meaning storage should be shut down after hypervisors are offline.