Scenario:
The Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of a large company has directed their IT management staff to
examine corporate-wide operations and find ways to limit the cost of operations. The corporate
directives have prompted the adoption of company policies that include the use of virtualization for
all new servers and as many services as possible. The company is subject to government

regulations concerning data retention policies for confidential data. Data must be retained for
seven years.
An audit of the backup and recovery environment is performed. The exhibit shows a typical site
and how it is connected to the disaster recovery environment. Data in the primary site is
configured on VMAX storage using FAST-VP to support multiple work load types on a single
storage array.
Data is protected by SRDF/A to a remote VMAX which acts as a target for multiple sites. The
remote copy of the data is snapped and copied to tape. Retention is accomplished to
governmental standards by offsite storage of tape in a remote protected facility.
The company has indicated that it has the following requirements in any proposed architecture for
the backup and recovery environment:
Reduced power consumption
Reduced floor space consumption
Reduced storage capacity consumption
Lower WAN bandwidth utilization
Shorten RPO
Decrease RTO
Increase security
Lower total cost of ownership (TCO)

Refer to Scenario and the exhibit.

To satisfy the stated requirements, the customer wants to use a virtual appliance to limit power
and space consumption in their smaller locations. To replace the current SRDF/A replication
model, which EMC technology should be recommended?

A.
Avamar Virtual Edition

B.
Data Domain

C.
NetWorker NDMP

D.
File Management Appliance VE