A company is planning to deploy a database application that requires high availability. In the event of a host failure, the application must sustain only minimal service interruption. Which…

Remote data replication is for disaster recovery or data protection across locations, not for immediate application failover during a host failure within a single site.

Local data replication protects data within a site but does not automatically provide application failover to another host upon a host failure.

Clustering involves grouping multiple servers (nodes) together to act as a single system, where if one node fails, another node automatically takes over its workload with minimal downtime. For a database application requiring high availability and minimal service interruption during a host failure, this active-passive or active-active failover mechanism is essential.

Two-stage backup focuses on data restoration and involves significant downtime, which is contrary to the requirement for minimal service interruption.