In 2025, a healthcare platform team moving latency-sensitive database VMs to vSAN 8. The current work item concerns HCI Mesh setup. The team has vCenter access, current backups, and a change window, but one engineer is pushing a shortcut based on an older vSAN deployment. A nonproduction template library is being migrated at the same time. Exam objective focus: HCI Mesh setup. Which decision best balances availability, supportability, and operational risk?
