A company is recovering a 3-tier application (Database, Middleware, Web). The administrator executes the Recovery Plan. The Web tier VMs start up but applications immediately crash because they cannot connect to the Database tier. Which setting in the Recovery Plan should the administrator have configured to prevent this execution failure?

Recovery Plans execute stages sequentially; if the Web-tier stage starts before the Database tier is on-line, dependent services fail. Configuring an “Optional Inter-Stage Delay” forces Prism to pause for a specified number of seconds between stages, guaranteeing the Database VMs have finished booting and accepted connections before the Web tier powers on, preventing the observed crash.

B. Categories aid grouping but do not enforce boot-time sequencing delays.
C. Policy mapping determines which data set is recovered, not VM start timing.
D. Volume Group attachment affects shared disks, unrelated to cross-tier boot order.

1. Nutanix Data Protection & Disaster Recovery Guide v5.20, §7.6 “Configuring Inter-Stage Delays”.

2. Nutanix University NCP-BC Courseware Module 4, slide 36, “Using optional delays to satisfy application dependencies”.

3. Xi Leap Administrator Guide v1.11, p. 34 – “Delays prevent a tier from starting until the previous tier services are ready”.