Project $2$: Plan a high$-$availability and disaster$-$recovery solution

Scenario:

Progreso Ltd$.$ has its headquarters in Edmonton and is reviewing its current disaster$-$recovery strategy after a recent fire in a Mexico branch office that resulted in data loss. Progreso is also reviewing current strategies around high availability, and is considering an upgrade to Windows Server $2022,$ but wants to determine if there are any features that it can leverage. Budgets are tight and management is wondering whether there are any possible cost savings that could help offset the expenditure to replace existing legacy storage with a Hyper$-$V cluster. Progreso has the following business requirements:

$$ Public facing financial transactions take place online.

$$ There are $1,000$ employees across Application$/$Product Development, Human Resources $($HR$),$ Finance, Customer Service, Information Technology $($IT$),$ and Sales.

$$ Finance can't tolerate any downtime in their SQL and finance applications, which are running on Hyper$-$V$.$

$$ The finance team requires less than $1$ minute downtime for their recovery time objective $($RTO$)$ and zero data loss as their recovery point objective $($RPO$)$ on their customer$-$facing transactions.

$$ The finance division is also growing at a very fast rate, and they expect increased demand for application and services.

The solution should:

$$ Allow for monthly updates, with no downtime.

$$ Allow for existing legacy storage to be replaced, without downtime, to the Hyper$-$V cluster.

$$ Provide a disaster$-$recovery strategy that allows for recovery of critical virtual machines $($VMs$)$ should there be another disaster event in either office location.

The main task for this exercise is to Design the appropriate high$-$availability and disaster$-$recovery solution for Progreso Company. What actions should you take, and which technologies should you consider using?

After completing this project, you'll have successfully designed the appropriate high$-$availability and disaster$-$recovery solution that'll meet your organization$$s requirements.