An administrator has received calls about a virtual machine experiencing intermittent application issues during the evening. To troubleshoot, the administrator needs to capture the virtual machine in the state it is in during the evening hours for later analysis.
Which two tasks would accomplish this requirement? (Choose two)
A.
Create a scheduled task to clone the virtual machine once per evening
B.
Create an alarm that is triggered when a loss of VMware Tools heartbeat to the virtual machine occurs.
C.
Use esxtop in batch mode and capture metrics during the evening hours.
D.
Create a scheduled task to create a snapshot of the virtual machine once per evening
I disagree with D since taking a snapshot would not allow you to troubleshoot the state of the virtual machine without disrupting it. You can schedule a clone task, this would allow you to start up a copy of the VM for investigation purposes.
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D is indeed correct because you can clone a disk off of a snapshot. See: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1027876
Cloning an active VM is more intensive and a much slower process…so with that in mind, you might introduce further load onto the ESXi host trying to clone it based on a scheduled task.
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