Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-305 Practice Question
Contoso runs 15 on-premises VMware virtual machines and 10 Azure virtual machines in the East US region. Senior management mandates a disaster-recovery strategy that provides an RPO of no more than five minutes and an RTO of no more than 30 minutes while keeping Azure compute costs as low as possible during normal operations. Failover must land in the East US 2 region. Which solution should you recommend?
Use Azure Site Recovery: replicate the on-premises VMware VMs to an Azure Recovery Services vault in East US 2 and enable Azure-to-Azure VM replication from East US to East US 2, creating target VMs only during failover.
Protect all VMs with Azure Backup configured for daily backups, and rely on instant restore in East US 2 during a disaster.
Take geo-redundant managed disk snapshots of each VM every hour and recreate the virtual machines from the snapshots in East US 2 when needed.
Deploy an identical set of VMs in East US 2, keep them running continuously, and configure Azure Traffic Manager for automatic failover.
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can continuously replicate on-premises VMware virtual machines to Azure and replicate Azure virtual machines to a secondary Azure region. ASR keeps only replica storage and metadata in the target region; target VMs are created on-the-fly during a failover, so there is no standing compute cost in East US 2. ASR's near-continuous replication provides RPOs measured in minutes (often seconds) and orchestrated failover delivers RTOs well below 30 minutes.
Azure Backup uses scheduled point-in-time backups (minimum frequency once per day), so it cannot meet a five-minute RPO, and restoring a full VM usually exceeds a 30-minute RTO. Managed disk snapshots every hour also breach the RPO and require manual VM recreation, extending RTO. An active/active deployment with pre-provisioned VMs could meet the objectives but incurs ongoing compute cost, violating the cost constraint.
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