E20-329 Question #198: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

Scenario: The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of a large company has directed their IT management staff to examine corporate-wide operations and find ways to limit the cost of operations. The corporate directives have prompted the adoption of company policies that include the use of virtualization for all new servers and as many services as possible. The company is subject to government regulations concerning data retention policies for confidential data. Data must be retained for seven years. An audit of the backup and recovery environment is performed. The exhibit shows a typical site and how it is connected to the disaster recovery environment. Data in the primary site is configured on VMAX storage using FAST-VP to support multiple work load types on a single storage array. Data is protected by SRDF/A to a remote VMAX which acts as a target for multiple sites. The remote copy of the data is snapped and copied to tape. Retention is accomplished to governmental standards by offsite storage of tape in a remote protected facility. The company has indicated that it has the following requirements in any proposed architecture for the backup and recovery environment: Reduced power consumption Reduced floor space consumption Reduced storage capacity consumption Lower WAN bandwidth utilization Shorten RPO Decrease RTO Increase security Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) Refer to Scenario and the exhibit. To satisfy the stated requirements, the customer wants to use a virtual appliance to limit power and space consumption in their smaller locations. To replace the current SRDF/A replication model, which EMC technology should be recommended?