12.3.11 Practice Questions

You are the network administrator for westsim.com. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. You are responsible for a server named HV1 that has the Hyper-V role installed. HV1 hosts a virtual machine that runs a custom web application that is in use 24 hours per day. The virtual machine has one hard drive that is hosted on a 127 GB expanding virtual hard drive (.vhdx). The server is running out of room. Management would like to upload 100 GB of new media files for use in the web application. You need to provide more storage space inside the virtual machine while minimizing downtime for the custom web application. What should you do?

Add a new virtual hard drive (.vhdx) to a SCSI controller.

When you originally deployed the AccServer virtual machine on your Windows Server 2012 R2 hypervisor, it stored accounting data from all departments in your organization and required a very large virtual disk. However, as your organization has grown, additional department-specific accounting servers have been deployed and much of the data that used to be stored on AccServer has migrated to them. Because the virtual hard disk file for the AccServer virtual machine is set to grow dynamically, the unused space in the file can be reclaimed on the physical hard drive in the Windows server. Click the option you would use in the Edit Virtual Hard Disk wizard to accomplish this without reducing the overall storage capacity of the virtual hard disk.

Compact

You currently manage a virtual machine named VM18 that has been installed on the Srv5 physical server. The virtual machine uses a single dynamic disk of 100 GB. You notice that the physical size of the virtual hard disk is 40 GB, but that the virtual machine reports only a total of 20 GB of files. You want to reduce the physical space used by the virtual hard disk. What should you do?

Compact the disk.

You currently manage a virtual machine named VM12 that has been installed on the Srv5 physical server. The virtual machine uses a single fixed disk of 100 GB saved in the vdisk1.vhd file. Physical disk space on the server is getting low. When you run Disk Management within the virtual machine, you notice that only 30 GB of space is being used, but the vdisk1.vhd file occupies 100 GB. You want to reduce the physical size of the virtual hard disk. What should you do?

Convert the disk to a dynamically expanding disk named vdisk2.vhd. Delete vdisk1.vhd, and change vdisk2.vhd's name to vdisk1.vhd.

You are working in Hyper-V Manager on a system that hosts several Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machines. You create snapshots of these virtual machines nightly as part of your disaster recovery plan. Users are complaining that they can no longer access the virtual servers. In Hyper-V Manager, they are identified as being in a Paused-Critical state. What should you do? (Select two. Each answer is a part of the overall solution.)

Move the snapshot files to the new hard disk. Install a new physical hard disk in the hypervisor host.

You need to add additional disk space to the AccServ virtual machine running on a Windows server. To accomplish this, you decide to create a pass-through disk. Click the option you would use in the virtual machine's settings screen to do this.

Physical hard disk:

You want to use Hyper-V to create two virtual machines that each use a common parent installation. Listed below are the steps necessary to complete the configuration. Drag each required step from the list on the left to the spaces on the right. Use only the necessary steps to complete the configuration.

Step 1 Create one fixed disk. Step 2 Create the virtual machine(s). Step 3 Install the operating system. Step 4 Make the disk(s) read only. Step 5 Create two differencing disks. Step 6 Create the virtual machine(s).

You currently manage a virtual machine named VM18 that has been installed on the Srv5 physical server. The virtual machine runs Windows Server and a custom application. You receive an update to the application. You want to save the current state so if the update causes any problems, you can easily revert back to the state before the update was installed. What should you do?

Take a snapshot of the virtual machine.

You currently manage a virtual machine named VM12 that has been installed on the Srv5 physical server. The virtual machine uses a single fixed disk of 40 GB saved in the vdisk1.vhd file. The virtual machine is running out of free disk space. The virtual machine currently uses about 39.5 GB of the available disk space. You need to add more disk space to the virtual machine. What should you do?

Expand the vdisk1.vhd disk.

You have decided to install multiple virtual servers. You install Hyper-V on a server that is running Windows Server 2016 Datacenter edition. You need to install the following virtual machines: Four servers running the Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard edition (64-bit) Three servers running the Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter edition (64-bit) Three servers running the Windows Server 2016 Standard edition (64-bit) To conserve disk space, you decide to use parent and differencing disks. You need to create the virtual hard disks used by the virtual machines. What should you do?

Create three fixed disks and ten differencing disks.