Exam 2V0-621 topic 1 question 190 discussion

Actual exam question from VMware's 2V0-621

Question #: 190
Topic #: 1

An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks.
What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

A. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the disk level.
B. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level.
C. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level.
D. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level.

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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️
When reducing the disk volume size, the cloning operation switches from a Block level clone to a File level clone operation, meaning each individual file on the filesystem is copied over to the virtual machines hard drive rather than a block by block image of the drive.

This can cause issues if the filesystem on the source machine is not in good health (for example, if it is severely fragmented, the physical drive has unrecorded bad sectors, or system files are damaged or missing in the index tables of the NTFS file system).

Reference:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014872

by [deleted] at April 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.

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