The IT team at a large retail company is reviewing its disaster-recovery strategy to meet the organization's requirement for moderate downtime after a disruption. They are considering implementing a warm site. Which of the following best describes the state of a warm site that they should expect?
Partially equipped with servers, network connections, and possibly some replicated data, but requires additional configuration before it can become fully operational.
Equipped only with the physical infrastructure and requires all servers, applications, and data to be restored before operations can resume.
Fully operational with all services, applications, and data mirrored from the primary site and running in real time.
Lacks any pre-installed hardware and is primarily an empty data center reserved for emergency use.
A warm site is a partially equipped recovery facility with pre-installed servers, network connectivity, and other core infrastructure. It usually has some software and configuration in place and may receive periodic-though not real-time-data replication. Because it is not maintained in full sync with the primary data center, the IT staff must perform additional configuration and restore recent data before the site can assume production workloads. This contrasts with a cold site, which has only basic infrastructure and no installed hardware or data, and a hot site, which is fully mirrored and ready for immediate failover.
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