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An administrator needs to migrate a company’s physical servers to virtual servers and deploy into the ESXi 5.x cluster. During the process of converting to a virtual machine, the administrator needs to reduce the size of the disks.
Which method should the administrator use to meet this requirement?
A. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level
B. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level
C. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level
D. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level
Correct Answer: A
Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
We use VMware Converter to migrate physical servers to virtual servers. The process is known as P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversion.
To reduce the size of the disks, we need to use volume-base cloning at the file level.
During volume-based cloning, volumes from the source machine are copied to the destination machine. Converter Standalone supports volume-based cloning during hot cloning.
Volume-based cloning is performed at the file level or block level, depending on the destination volume size that you select. When you configure the virtual machine options and you select a volume size that is smaller than the volume in the physical server, volume-based cloning at the file level will be used.
Incorrect Answers:
B: Volume-based cloning requires that the physical server is running so we cannot use VMware Converter cold cloning. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.
C: Volume-based cloning at the block level is performed when you choose to preserve the size of the source volume or when you specify a larger volume size for NTFS source volumes. This does not meet the requirement of reducing the size of the disks. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.
D: Volume-based cloning requires that the physical server is running so we cannot use VMware Converter cold cloning. Therefore, this answer is incorrect.
References:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_55_guide.pdf Page: 14