Scenario 1:

Based on the discussions with the client, you determine that the current DR strategy is not optimal. You want to propose a new layout that utilizes three data facilities, as shown in the exhibit. A large publicity-traded motion picture exhibitor that is a leader In digital and 3D cinema deployments orepates 233 theaters and more than 2,200 screens in small to mid-sized communities in 35 states around United States. They rely on MS Exchange Server 2010 for email, MS SQL. Server 2010 for analyzing data about movies and theater-goers, and MS Excel 2010 for crunching numbers. The company runs nightly incremental backups and a full weekly backup that consists of close to 7TB of data which takes up 72 hours to complete. The quarterly backups add an additional 7 TB of data. Tapes are inventoried and transported from the main data center to the disaster recovery site 150 miles away. The process of transporting tape cartridges to and from the Disaster Recovery site requires hours of dally work. The company currently relies on an aging robotic tape library and a process that takes the nightly backup tapes of site every morning. Additionally, the company keeps an inventory, and if a restore is necessary,they have to retrieve the tapes from the DR site and transport them to the main data center site. They have a 7 year data retention plan, and the tapes are expensive and not always reliable. Given the company's current system, if a full weekly backup fails over a weekend, the re-run could take up to 10 hours, even if just one job failed. The company has deployed an virtualized server infrascructure which runs VmWare VSphere 5 on HP Bladesystem c7000 enclosures and BL46Oc servers interconnected with HP virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet modules as well as several HP ProLiant DL380 servers. The company top four IT improvements goal are as follows:

replacing the aging robotic tape library

enabling replication of backed up data from the main data center to

the disasterrecovery site (150miles)

retaining more backup data in smaller disk space -increasing

efficiency, reliabillity and ease of System administration Moreover the company's top thee business benefit goals are as follows:

increased confidence in disaster recovery

Minimal disruption by backup during regular business hours

The company has asked that you create multiple solution proposals and prioritize one when you return for a presentation. Refer to the scenario. How should you build the storage and backup based on this DR strategy?

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Scenario 1:

Based on the discussions with the client, you determine that the current DR strategy is not optimal. You want to propose a new layout that utilizes three data facilities, as shown in the exhibit. A large publicity-traded motion picture exhibitor that is a leader In digital and 3D cinema deployments orepates 233 theaters and more than 2,200 screens in small to mid-sized communities in 35 states around United States. They rely on MS Exchange Server 2010 for email, MS SQL. Server 2010 for analyzing data about movies and theater-goers, and MS Excel 2010 for crunching numbers. The company runs nightly incremental backups and a full weekly backup that consists of close to 7TB of data which takes up 72 hours to complete. The quarterly backups add an additional 7 TB of data. Tapes are inventoried and transported from the main data center to the disaster recovery site 150 miles away. The process of transporting tape cartridges to and from the Disaster Recovery site requires hours of dally work. The company currently relies on an aging robotic tape library and a process that takes the nightly backup tapes of site every morning. Additionally, the company keeps an inventory, and if a restore is necessary,they have to retrieve the tapes from the DR site and transport them to the main data center site. They have a 7 year data retention plan, and the tapes are expensive and not always reliable. Given the company's current system, if a full weekly backup fails over a weekend, the re-run could take up to 10 hours, even if just one job failed. The company has deployed an virtualized server infrascructure which runs VmWare VSphere 5 on HP Bladesystem c7000 enclosures and BL46Oc servers interconnected with HP virtual Connect Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet modules as well as several HP ProLiant DL380 servers. The company top four IT improvements goal are as follows:

replacing the aging robotic tape library
enabling replication of backed up data from the main data center to

the disasterrecovery site (150miles)

retaining more backup data in smaller disk space -increasing

efficiency, reliabillity and ease of System administration Moreover the company's top thee business benefit goals are as follows:

increased confidence in disaster recovery
Minimal disruption by backup during regular business hours

The company has asked that you create multiple solution proposals and prioritize one when you return for a presentation. Refer to the scenario. How should you build the storage and backup based on this DR strategy?

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D. Use data replication between the three sites. Implementing data replication between all three sites directly addresses the goal of utilizing three data facilities for an improved disaster recovery strategy. This provides robust redundancy and allows for quick recovery by having up-to-date data copies available at multiple locations, overcoming the limitations of physical tape transport.

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A. Use data replication between the Main Data Center and the DR site. Replicating data only between the Main Data Center and a single DR site does not fully leverage the proposed three data facilities for enhanced redundancy.

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B. Use an HP StoreOnce 4430 Backup solution in each facility. Using an HP StoreOnce 4430 in each facility provides local backup capability but does not inherently establish a replication strategy between the sites, which is crucial for a multi-site DR solution.

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C. Use an HP StoreOnce 4430 Backup solution to replicate data between the three facilities Using an HP StoreOnce 4430 solution for replication is a specific product implementation, whereas the question asks for the general strategy to utilize three facilities for DR; direct data replication between sites is the broader, fundamental strategy.

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