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350-401 Practice Question: Is designing a disaster recovery solution using…
A network engineer is designing a disaster recovery solution using VMware vSphere. The engineer needs to replicate virtual machines from the primary site to a secondary site with minimal downtime. The application VMs are running on NFS datastores. The engineer plans to use vSphere Replication. What prerequisite must be met for vSphere Replication to work with NFS datastores?
⚠ Common exam trap
Cisco often tests the misconception that NFS datastores require array-level features (like snapshot offloading) or special disk provisioning for replication, when in fact vSphere Replication only needs both source and target hosts to have the NFS datastore mounted to read and write VM data.
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The NFS datastores must be mounted on both the source and target ESXi hosts.
vSphere Replication operates at the hypervisor level, replicating VM data from the source ESXi host to the target ESXi host. For NFS datastores, the source and target hosts must each have the NFS datastore mounted because vSphere Replication reads the VM files from the source NFS mount and writes them to the target NFS mount. Without both mounts, the replication engine cannot access the source data or place the replica on the target storage.
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The NFS datastores must be mounted on both the source and target ESXi hosts.
Why this is correct
Correct because vSphere Replication needs access to the source datastore to read data and the target datastore to write replicas.
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The NFS datastores must be backed by a storage array that supports snapshot offloading.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because vSphere Replication uses its own snapshot mechanism, not array-based snapshots.
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The VMs must be configured with thick provisioning eager zeroed disks.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because vSphere Replication supports thin and thick disks.
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The NFS datastores must be part of a vSAN cluster.
Why it's wrong here
Incorrect because vSphere Replication works with NFS, not requiring vSAN.
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