An enterprise has deployed Huawei all-flash storage systems in data centers A and B to...

The only true statement is C, so the false statements are A, B, and D.

Huawei states: “If communication between the storage systems is down, the preferred site continues to provide services while the other site stops providing services.”

The HyperMetro pair therefore transitions to To be synchronized because the two storage systems can no longer maintain synchronous dual-write consistency across the failed inter-site link.

Option A is false because automatic fallback to static priority mode is associated with quorum-server failure, not merely failure of the HyperMetro communication link while the quorum server remains available. Option D is false because permitting both sites to continue independently would create a split-brain risk. Quorum arbitration exists specifically to prevent that condition.

Option B is also false because arbitration does not simply make both sides unavailable. One site wins arbitration and continues providing services, while the losing site stops host access.

This behavior preserves data consistency until the inter-site link is repaired and synchronization resumes.

Study Guide Topics: Data Protection Solution → HyperMetro → Single Quorum Server → Arbitration Mechanism → Link Failure → To-be-Synchronized State.