A company has a Huawei hybrid flash storage system deployed in its data center. Storage engineers use the snapshot feature to protect LUN data. If all LUN data is encrypted by ransomware, snapshots can be used to restore production data, ensuring zero data loss.
Huawei explains that when a LUN snapshot is created and activated, ''a data copy that is identical to the source LUN is generated.'' The snapshot subsequently preserves data associated with that specific snapshot state.
The statement is therefore FALSE because a snapshot is fundamentally a point-in-time protection mechanism. It can recover data to the state represented by an available clean snapshot, but this does not automatically mean zero data loss. Any valid production changes written after the latest clean snapshot and before the ransomware incident may not exist in the restored snapshot.
The course makes the point-in-time property explicit for snapshot technology: snapshot data remains consistent with the source at the snapshot creation point.
Zero-data-loss protection is associated with technologies that synchronously maintain another valid copy, such as HyperMetro or synchronous replication, rather than ordinary scheduled snapshots. Consequently, snapshots can be highly effective for ransomware recovery when a clean recovery point exists, but the achievable RPO depends on the available snapshot protection points.
Study Guide Topics: Flash Storage Technology Presentation HyperSnap LUN Snapshot Point-in-Time Recovery RPO and Data Protection.