A company is evaluating Nutanix DR to protect some business critical applications and tasked an administrator to find an optimal configuration providing highest resiliency and lowest RPO to the…

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Options

• ADeploy one Prism Central instance on each site and configure synchronous replication using
• BDeploy Prism Central instance on one of the sites. Configure NearSync replication using
• CDeploy Prism Central instance on each site. Configure Metro Availability using Protection
• DDeploy Prism Central instance on one of the sites, configure Prism Central Disaster Recovery, and

• A
  13% (5)
• B
  60% (24)
• C
  23% (9)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

NearSync replication in Nutanix provides an RPO as low as 1 minute (compared to 1-hour or longer for standard asynchronous replication), making it the best balance of lowest practical RPO with high resiliency for two-site AHV deployments. A single Prism Central instance managing both sites is a valid and commonly deployed architecture that simplifies management. Synchronous (Metro Availability) would deliver RPO=0 but requires very low, stable network latency (typically <5ms RTT) between sites and introduces performance overhead; NearSync is the optimal choice when strict synchronous constraints cannot be guaranteed. Option A (two Prism Central instances with synchronous) and D (Prism Central DR) add unnecessary complexity for the stated requirements.

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