Which configuration should the architect present to meet this customer needs?

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An oil company moves geological data between their offices in Dubai and Houston for redundancy. The data is accessed via NFS mounts on a cluster of three 10GB connected Linux servers at each location.

A series of cron jobs are leveraged to replicate data from data storage pool A in Dubai to data storage B in Houston and from data storage A in Houston to data storage pool B in Dubai.

Data in storage pool A is read-write, updated by 50 cellular connected data collector running in the field, and deleted after 30 days.

Data in the storage pool B is read-only, queried by the firm’s analytics team, and copied to a cloud-based archive repository every 30 days.

The total amount of data in pool A in Dubai is 1.5PB

The total amount of data in pool B in Houston is 500TB

The data is not expected to grow in the next 12 months and is compressed by the application.

Which configuration should the architect present to meet this customer needs?
A . A Multi-Chassis FlashBlade with 52TB blades for each site focusing on simplicity.
B. A Multi-Chassis FlashBlade with 17TB blades for each site focusing on performance.
C. A Multi-Chassis FlashBlade with 52TB blades for each site and third-party replication software.
D. A Multi-Chassis FlashBlade with 17TB blades for each site and third-party replication software.

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Answer: C