A Citrix Administrator is given the task of creating a new maintenance version for a vDisk from an existing maintenance disk. Which task does the administrator need to complete before the new…

Merging consolidates multiple vDisk versions into one base image but is not a prerequisite step for creating a new maintenance version.

Promoting the current maintenance version advances it to test or production state, which is the prerequisite step required before a new maintenance version can be created. Citrix PVS enforces a single maintenance version per vDisk at any given time, so the existing version must be promoted to clear that slot. This is the defined workflow in the PVS vDisk versioning lifecycle.

Releasing vDisk locks is performed when a device has improperly retained a lock on a vDisk, which is unrelated to the version creation workflow.

Unassigning a vDisk removes device-to-vDisk associations but is not required before creating a new maintenance version of the vDisk.