A customer has deployed TrueCopy Extended Distance on their Hitachi Unified Storage systems. They would like to be alerted when their RPO exceeds the business requirement. Which product would you…

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Options

• AHitachi Replication Manager
• BHitachi Command Director
• CBusiness Continuity Manager
• DHitachi Universal Replicator

• A
  77% (24)
• B
  6% (2)
• C
  13% (4)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

Hitachi Replication Manager (A) is the correct choice because it is specifically designed to monitor and manage replication environments, including TrueCopy Extended Distance, and can trigger alerts when the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) drifts beyond a defined threshold - exactly what the customer needs.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (Hitachi Command Director) is a storage management and provisioning tool focused on configuration and resource management, not replication monitoring or RPO alerting.
• C (Business Continuity Manager) handles failover orchestration and disaster recovery workflows; it automates the response to a failure rather than monitoring replication lag against business SLAs.
• D (Hitachi Universal Replicator) is itself a replication technology (asynchronous remote replication), not a monitoring product - you can't use a replication engine to alert on itself.

Memory tip: Think "Replication Manager manages replication health." If a question mentions monitoring, alerting, or RPO/RTO thresholds in a Hitachi replication context, Replication Manager is the product that watches the gauges - the others either run the replication or respond when things go wrong.

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