1V0-601 · Question #110
You are planning to perform hardware maintenance on one of your ESXi hosts. It is currently running several Virtual Machines that you do not wish to power off. Which vCenter feature will allow you…
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You are planning to perform hardware maintenance on one of your ESXi hosts. It is currently running several Virtual Machines that you do not wish to power off. Which vCenter feature will allow you to perform this maintenance without disrupting the VMs?
Options
- AvMotion
- BHigh Availability
- CvSphere Replication
- DvSphere Distributed Switch
How the community answered
(46 responses)- A78% (36)
- B7% (3)
- C2% (1)
- D13% (6)
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Prof. SaraJun 26, 2026The correct answer is A, vMotion. vMotion is VMware's live migration technology, and it lets you move a running VM from one ESXi host to another with zero downtime, preserving all active memory state, CPU state, and open network connections throughout the transfer. Once your VMs are migrated off the host, you can place that host into Maintenance Mode and perform your hardware work safely. The other options serve completely different purposes: High Availability restarts VMs reactively after a host failure, vSphere Replication copies VM data to a secondary site for disaster recovery, and a Distributed Switch is purely a networking construct for managing vSwitches across multiple hosts. A quick mnemonic that helps students lock this in: think of the M in vMotion as standing for Move - you Move the VM off the host before touching the hardware, and the guest never knows anything happened.
Anjali D.Jun 15, 2026Group agrees on A, vMotion live-migrates running VMs to another host without downtime.
Prof. SaraJun 18, 2026Correct on the core definition, and for the exam pair that with the prereqs: both hosts need access to shared storage and a VMkernel port tagged for vMotion traffic, because without those two in place, the live migration never leaves the ground.
Nina C.May 30, 2026vMotion is exactly right. It live-migrates running VMs from one host to another with zero downtime, so you can put the host into maintenance mode and the users never even notice.
Kavya H.Jun 26, 2026Ran into this exact scenario on my exam and honestly the wording threw me for a second because they said "hardware maintenance" and I kept second-guessing myself thinking HA, but HA is reactive, it kicks in after a failure, it does not proactively move VMs before you take a host down. vMotion is the one that lets you live-migrate running VMs off a host with zero downtime so you can put it in maintenance mode and swap out that failed DIMM or bad NIC without anyone losing a session.
Yusuf A.Jun 26, 2026Honestly I am going with D on this one because a senior at my job was telling me last week that the Distributed Switch is what ties all the hosts together at the network level, so when you pull a host for maintenance the VMs stay connected through that shared switch and keep running without interruption. It just makes sense to me that the networking layer is what keeps everything alive while the physical host goes offline.
Anjali D.Jun 29, 2026Yusuf, the Distributed Switch does handle consistent networking across hosts, but it is vMotion (option A) that actually keeps the VMs running by live-migrating them off the host before maintenance begins, so the workloads move to other hosts in the cluster with zero downtime. The network layer alone cannot relocate a running VM off a host that is going offline. Anyone else want to weigh in?