A RecoverPoint administrator is planning to use RecoverPoint to protect their applications. The administrator needs to protect 8192 production volumes. The RecoverPoint system has two physical RPA clusters using VNX arrays. What is a possible Consistency Group configuration?

The requirement is to protect 8192 production volumes. In RecoverPoint, each production volume being protected constitutes one replication set. Therefore, the system must be configured with 8192 replication sets. According to official Dell RecoverPoint documentation, a single RecoverPoint system (which can consist of multiple clusters) supports a maximum of 8192 replication sets and a maximum of 256 Consistency Groups.
Option B proposes 8192 replication sets, which meets the protection requirement and aligns exactly with the maximum supported system limit. These 8192 replication sets can be organized within the supported limit of 256 Consistency Groups (e.g., 256 groups each containing 32 replication sets).

A. This configuration only protects 4096 production volumes, failing to meet the stated requirement of protecting 8192 volumes.
C. This option exceeds the maximum supported limit of 256 Consistency Groups per RecoverPoint system.
D. This option drastically exceeds the maximum supported limit of 256 Consistency Groups per RecoverPoint system.

1. Dell RecoverPoint Classic 5.3.2 Release Notes, Page 6, Table 1, "System Limits".

"Maximum number of consistency groups per RecoverPoint system": 256

"Maximum number of replication sets per RecoverPoint system": 8192

2. Dell EMC RecoverPoint 5.1 Administrator's Guide, Page 20, "RecoverPoint system limits" table.

This table confirms the system limits, stating "Maximum consistency groups per system" is 256 and "Maximum replication sets per system" is 8192. This directly supports that option B is at the maximum possible scale, while options C and D are impossible.

3. Dell EMC Knowledge Base Article 000158579: "RecoverPoint: What are the configuration maximums for RecoverPoint" (login may be required).

This article reiterates the system limits for various versions, consistently showing a maximum of 256 Consistency Groups and 8192 Replication Sets for physical RPA systems in recent versions.