You work as an administrator at Contoso.com. The Contoso.com network consists of a single domain named
Contoso.com. All servers on the Contoso.com network have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
Contoso.com has a server, named ENSUREPASS-SR07, which has two physical disks installed. The C: drive
hosts the boot partition, while the D: drive is not being used. Both disks are online.
You have received instructions to create a virtual machine on ENSUREPASS-SR07. Subsequent to creating
the virtual machine, you have to connect the D: drive to the virtual machine.Which of the following is TRUE with regards to connecting a physical disk to a virtual machine?
A.
The physical disk should not be online.
B.
The physical disk should be uninstalled and re-installed.
C.
The physical disk should be configured as a striped disk.
D.
The physical disk should be configured as a mirrored disk.
Explanation:
Your virtual machines can also be connected to physical hard disks on the virtualization server virtual hard
disks. (This is sometimes referred to as having a “pass-through” disk connected to a virtual machine.)
The physical hard disk that you connect to a virtual machine can also be a network-attached disk, like a logical
unit number (LUN) in a storage area network (SAN). A common example is an iSCSI LUN that has been
mapped to the virtualization server by using Microsoft iSCSI Initiator. Because the virtualization server sees
network-attached storage as local disks, the iSCSI LUN can be connected to a virtual machine.
The most important limitation about having a physical hard disk connected to a virtual machine is that it cannot
be connected to the virtualization server or to other virtual machines at the same time. The virtual machine
must have exclusive access to the physical hard disk.
Pass-through Disk Configuration Hyper-V allows virtual machines to access storage mapped directly to the
Hyper-V server without requiring the volume be configured. The storage can either be a physical disk internal to
the Hyper-V server or it can be a Storage Area Network (SAN) Logical Unit (LUN) mapped to the Hyper-V
server. To ensure the Guest has exclusive access to the storage, it must be placed in an Offline state from the
Hyper-Vserver perspective.