VMware vSAN Administrator (2025) — Question 17

An architect is designing a Business Continuity Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy for a Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment with a management domain and multiple workload domains deployed in two datacenters located in the same city.
During one of the initial workshops with stakeholders, the following information was identified:
The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) for workloads is 24 hours.
The management domain must remain continuously available with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 0.
Hardware overhead should be minimized by utilizing standby resources that hosts test workloads during normal operation.
Operational overhead should be minimized.
Latency between both datacenters is 2 ms.
Which design decision should the architect document to satisfy provided requirements?

Answer options

• A. Use VCF Automation to redeploy the entire environment in case of a failure.
• B. Use asynchronous replication for both management and workload domains.
• C. Back up all workloads daily and store them in a central repository to meet RTO expectations.
• D. Implement vSAN stretched cluster for the management domain and Live Recovery for the workload domains.

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct choice is D, as a vSAN stretched cluster allows the management domain to remain continuously available while meeting the RPO of 0, and Live Recovery ensures that workload domains can be quickly restored within the RTO of 24 hours. Option A is incorrect because redeploying the entire environment would not meet the RTO requirements. Option B does not satisfy the RPO needs for the management domain, and Option C would not guarantee the immediate availability required by the management domain.