HP0-J73 · Question #40
When planning a design for highly available storage clusters operating between multiple data centers, which factors protect against data center failures? (Select two.)
The correct answer is D. site design and quorum managers E. data replication. Protecting a multi-data center storage cluster against full site failures requires both quorum-based site design to prevent split-brain and cross-site data replication to maintain data availability.
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When planning a design for highly available storage clusters operating between multiple data centers, which factors protect against data center failures? (Select two.)
Options
- Apassive backplanes in nodes
- Bredundant CMC implementation
- CNetwork Raid 5
- Dsite design and quorum managers
- Edata replication
How the community answered
(14 responses)- A7% (1)
- B21% (3)
- C7% (1)
- D64% (9)
Why each option
Protecting a multi-data center storage cluster against full site failures requires both quorum-based site design to prevent split-brain and cross-site data replication to maintain data availability.
Passive backplanes in storage nodes provide resilience against internal component failures within a single node such as a failed drive or controller, and do not address the scenario of an entire data center going offline.
Redundant CMC (Chassis Management Controller) implementation protects against blade chassis management module failures within a single enclosure and does not extend any protection to a multi-data center site failure scenario.
Network RAID 5 distributes data across multiple nodes within a storage cluster to protect against individual node failures, but it does not protect against the loss of an entire data center because all nodes at that site would fail simultaneously.
Site design incorporating quorum managers is critical in multi-data center clusters because quorum prevents split-brain conditions when inter-site connectivity is lost, ensuring only one site remains authoritative and data remains consistent during a failover event.
Data replication between data centers ensures a synchronized copy of all data exists at the remote site so that if the primary data center fails completely, replicated data can be activated to restore storage services without data loss.
Concept tested: Multi-data center storage cluster high availability design
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