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Which virtualization feature is used to move VMs between two different ESXI hosts?
The correct answer is C. hardware abstraction. Hardware abstraction is a foundational virtualization feature that decouples virtual machines from the physical hardware, enabling their portability and facilitating live migration between different ESXi hosts.
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Which virtualization feature is used to move VMs between two different ESXI hosts?
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- APartitioning
- Bencapsulation
- Chardware abstraction
- Disolation
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Why each option
Hardware abstraction is a foundational virtualization feature that decouples virtual machines from the physical hardware, enabling their portability and facilitating live migration between different ESXi hosts.
Partitioning is the process of dividing physical resources among multiple virtual machines on a single host, not a feature for moving VMs between hosts.
Encapsulation involves bundling a VM's configuration and disk files into an isolated package, but it is not the active process or feature used for live migration.
Hardware abstraction provides a consistent virtual hardware interface to the virtual machine, regardless of the underlying physical hardware of the ESXi host. This decoupling is essential for allowing a VM to be moved seamlessly and operate without modification on different physical hosts during live migration, such as vMotion.
Isolation ensures that virtual machines operate independently and securely from each other, preventing interference, which is separate from the functionality of moving VMs between hosts.
Concept tested: Virtual machine migration principles
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/performance-tuning/subsystem/hyper-v-virtualization/common-virtualization-concepts
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