CV0-002 · Question #49
Which of the following will be the BEST option for an administrator to bring VMs online at a warm site after a natural disaster has occurred at the primary site?
The correct answer is D. Verify replication is enabled. To rapidly bring VMs online at a warm site following a primary site disaster, verifying that data replication was continuously enabled is the best option, as replication ensures the warm site has up-to-date VM copies ready for failover.
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Which of the following will be the BEST option for an administrator to bring VMs online at a warm site after a natural disaster has occurred at the primary site?
Options
- AKick off a full backup
- BRequest offsite backup tapes
- CConfirm enterprise tape library is functional
- DVerify replication is enabled
How the community answered
(59 responses)- A14% (8)
- B3% (2)
- C7% (4)
- D76% (45)
Why each option
To rapidly bring VMs online at a warm site following a primary site disaster, verifying that data replication was continuously enabled is the best option, as replication ensures the warm site has up-to-date VM copies ready for failover.
Kicking off a full backup is a primary site operation done to save data, not a disaster recovery step at a warm site to bring VMs online after a disaster has already occurred.
Requesting offsite backup tapes and then restoring from them is a time-consuming process that would result in a high Recovery Time Objective (RTO), which is not suitable for the faster recovery expected from a warm site.
Confirming an enterprise tape library is functional is related to tape-based recovery, which, like requesting tapes, is too slow for the faster recovery RTO typically associated with a warm site for bringing VMs online.
Verifying that replication is enabled ensures that the warm site has near-real-time or recent copies of the virtual machines and their data from the primary site. This allows for a quick failover operation where the replicated VMs can be powered on at the warm site with minimal data loss and downtime, which is the primary purpose of a warm disaster recovery site.
Concept tested: Disaster recovery strategies (warm site, replication)
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/azure-to-azure-architecture
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