Citrix Workspace – Planning and Building — Question 118

Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing hardware requirements for a small production XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
Requirements:
✑ Access to the environment hosted in a single datacenter
✑ Ability to perform maintenance on the environment without requiring an outage
Which hardware requirement does the architect need to include for hypervisor hosts in order to meet the customer's needs?

Answer options

• A. Multiple individual hypervisor hosts in the same datacenter
• B. Separate hypervisor cluster/pool in an alternate datacenter
• C. Separate hypervisor clusters/pools in the same datacenter
• D. N+1 hypervisor hosts in a single cluster/pool

Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is C because having separate hypervisor clusters/pools in the same datacenter allows for maintenance to be performed on one cluster while the other remains operational, ensuring no downtime. Options A and D do not provide the necessary redundancy for maintenance without outages, and option B involves a different datacenter, which does not meet the requirement for a single datacenter setup.