XSIAM-Engineer XSIAM Platform Architecture And Deployment Practice Question
An administrator is planning the deployment of Broker VMs in a high-availability configuration. What is the recommended approach for handling Broker VM redundancy?
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Deploy multiple Broker VMs in a clustered group or behind a network load balancer to ensure seamless failover and load distribution.
Deploying multiple Broker VMs behind a load balancer or as a logical cluster ensures high availability and failover capabilities for agent check-ins and log forwarding.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Install two instances of the Broker VM software on the exact same virtual machine instance.
Why it's wrong here
Running multiple instances on one VM does not provide hardware or hypervisor redundancy.
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Configure the Cortex XDR agents with a single hardcoded IP address and rely on BGP Anycast for failover.
Why it's wrong here
BGP Anycast is an advanced routing technique, not the native Broker VM HA configuration.
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Deploy multiple Broker VMs in a clustered group or behind a network load balancer to ensure seamless failover and load distribution.
Why this is correct
High availability is achieved by deploying redundant Broker VMs to share the load.
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Configure active-passive clustering using Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering inside the Broker VM guest OS.
Why it's wrong here
Broker VMs run on a hardened Linux appliance image, not Windows Failover Clustering.
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