An administrator is protecting an application and its data stored on Volume Groups using Protection Domains. During failover tests, all application VMs restore successfully, but the application data…

Question

Options

• ASelect the "Auto protect related entities" checkbox.
• BManually add Volume Groups to Protected Entities.
• CPlace Volume Groups in a separate Protection Domain.
• DUse application-consistent snapshots.

• A
  83% (43)
• C
  6% (3)
• D
  12% (6)

Explanation

The problem is that the VMs were added to the Protection Domain but the Volume Groups (VGs) attached to those VMs were not. VGs are independent Nutanix entities and must be explicitly protected. There are two ways to fix this: (A) Enable 'Auto protect related entities' - this checkbox instructs Prism Element to automatically include entities such as Volume Groups that are associated with the protected VMs, ensuring nothing is missed; (B) Manually add the Volume Groups to Protected Entities - the administrator explicitly selects each VG in the PD configuration. Option C (separate PD for VGs) is operationally complex and risks inconsistent snapshot timing. Option D (application-consistent snapshots) improves data integrity within snapshots but does not solve the problem of VGs being absent from the PD entirely.

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