What happens to the differencing disk of a Random/Non-Persistent desktop machine following a restart in a XenDesktop 7.1x site running on XenServer?
A. It will be updated from the base image
B. It will be deleted
C. It will be reset for new use
D. It will be synchronized with the attached Personal vDisk
C
If hypervisor does not support clone on
boot, then:
a) Virtual machine is in steady state
b) The virtual machine is rebooted and the differencing
disk is disconnected
c) A new differencing disk is created
d) A newdifferencingdiskisattached
e) The old differencing disk is queued for deletion
If hypervisor supports clone on boot, it
resets the differencing disk on reboot.
Hypervisors supporting clone on boot include:
• VMware hypervisors
• XenServer 6.1 and up
• Pre-XenServer 6.1 supported for local and ISCSI storage repositories, but not for NFS
storage repositories
• Pre-XenServer 5.6 not supported