Question 1
Q1A financial services company is deploying a new mission-critical OLTP database on a Nutanix AHV cluster. The primary requirement is to achieve a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of less than 5 minutes in case of a site-wide outage. The company has two data centers with a high-speed, low-latency (<5ms RTT) dark fiber link. Which Nutanix data protection feature should the architect recommend to meet these stringent requirements?
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Correct answer: B
Metro Availability is the only Nutanix feature that provides synchronous replication, which is required to achieve an RPO of zero. By creating a stretched storage container across two sites and configuring a Witness VM, it can automatically failover in the event of a site failure, meeting the low RTO requirement. NearSync offers a low RPO (down to 1 minute) but not zero. Asynchronous and snapshot-based protection do not meet the RPO requirement.