A VM is protected in an Async Protection Policy and added to a Recovery Plan. An administrator is attempting to perform a planned failover of the VM. How many recovery points are created and replicated during the planned failover process?

During a planned failover, the system's objective is to achieve zero data loss (RPO=0). To accomplish this, Nutanix Disaster Recovery first gracefully powers off the guest VM at the source location. After the VM is powered off, it takes one final, consistent recovery point (snapshot), replicates it to the recovery location, and then powers on the VM at the recovery site using this newly replicated data. This ensures all in-flight data is captured.

A. This is incorrect. A new recovery point is always created during a planned failover to ensure zero data loss. Using the last replicated point is characteristic of an unplanned failover.
B. The recovery point is taken after the VM is powered off to ensure a consistent state, not while it is powered on.
C. The process is optimized to take only one final, consistent recovery point after the VM is powered off, not two separate ones.

1. Nutanix Disaster Recovery Guide v6.0, Chapter: Protection and Recovery with Nutanix Disaster Recovery, Section: Planned Failover. "When you initiate a planned failover... The system powers off the guest VMs gracefully at the source location... The system takes a new recovery point of the entities, replicates it to the recovery location..."

2. Nutanix University, Nutanix Certified Professional - Business Continuity (NCP-BC) 6.5, Module 4: Disaster Recovery Runbooks, Lesson: Recovery Plan Workflows. The courseware describes the planned failover process as shutting down the source VM before taking and replicating a final snapshot.