Your network contains three servers named HV1, HV2, and Server1 that run Windows Server 2012
R2. HV1 and HV2 have the Hyper-V server role installed. Server1 is a file server that contains 3 TB of
free disk space.
HV1 hosts a virtual machine named VM1. The virtual machine configuration file for VM1 is stored in
D:\VM and the virtual hard disk file is stored in E:\VHD.
You plan to replace drive E with a larger volume.
You need to ensure that VM1 remains available from HV1 while drive E is being replaced. You want
to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
What should you do?
A.
Perform a live migration to HV2.
B.
Add HV1 and HV2 as nodes in a failover cluster. Perform a storage migration to HV2.
C.
Add HV1 and HV2 as nodes in a failover cluster. Perform a live migration to HV2.
D.
Perform a storage migration to Server1.
Explanation:
One of the great new features coming in Windows Server 2012 is Storage Migration for Hyper-V.
Storage Migration allows an administrator to relocate the source files that make up a virtual
machine to another location without any downtime.Storage Migration creates a copy of the file or files at the new location. Once that is finished, Server
2012 does a final replication of changes and then the virtual machine uses the files in the new
location.Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V – Part 3: Storage Migration
I think it should be answer A : Live Migration.
You need to replace the disk. For this, most of the time, you need to shutdown the machine. This would cause VM1 to be down as we have only done a move of the files of VM1. The process still runs on HV1.
When doing a Live Migration, we can move the process of VM1 and also the files. After this is done, we can shutdown HV1 to replace the disk.
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In the question it is stated that we need to ensure that VM1 stays available on HV1. Also the E drive is not on HV1 but on Server 1 which is a file server. All we need to do is change the current folder on server1 to another drive which is possible by a storage migration. VM1 will stay online on HV1 while the files are moved to another disk. Then the physical E drive can be changed and if necessary the files can be moved back to their original state.
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