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
Explanation:
A
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/convsa_55_guide.pdf
A is correct
A = page 14 🙂
Volume-based cloning
at the file level
Performed when you select a size smaller than the original volume for NTFS
volumes or you choose to resize a FAT volume.
for use vconvert in phisical machine, this will be powered on, block level can not resize, file level is the choose.