An enterprise organization is designing a high-availability infrastructure for a mission-critical financial application. The business requirements state that the system must maintain a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero and support automated failover across geographically separated data centers. The lead architect proposes an active-passive dual-datacenter configuration utilizing asynchronous storage volume replication and dynamic DNS routing to switch client traffic upon primary site failure. Which of the following evaluations best explains why this proposed design fails to meet the organization's requirements?
- Asynchronous storage replication allows transactions to commit locally before remote confirmation, creating a window for data loss that violates an RPO of zero during an unannounced failure.Cevap
- BAsynchronous replication achieves hardware fault tolerance for active operations, but it cannot replace cold-site tape backups required for complete redundancy.
- CDynamic DNS traffic routing functions purely as a detective control, failing to provide the automated corrective control capability required for fault-tolerant architectures.
- DAsynchronous storage replication successfully guarantees zero data loss, but it violates the RPO threshold because RPO defines the maximum allowable duration of service downtime.
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Asynchronous storage replication allows transactions to commit locally before remote confirmation, creating a window for data loss that violates an RPO of zero during an unannounced failure.
Synchronous storage replication requires data to be written and acknowledged at both primary and secondary sites before a transaction is marked complete. Asynchronous storage replication, while offering lower latency across geographic distances, allows the primary storage system to acknowledge writes before they are transmitted to the secondary site. Consequently, if the primary site fails unexpectedly, any data in transit or queued for replication is lost, directly violating the requirement of an RPO of zero.
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Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Replication and RPO Bounds in High Availability Architectures