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.