Refer to the Exhibit. An administrator is migrating a powered-on virtual machine, as shown in the exhibit. Which option should be selected to perform a Storage vMotion of the VM?

Question

Exhibit

Options

• AChange storage only
• BChange VM compute resource only
• CChange both compute resource and storage, changing the compute resource first.
• DChange both compute resource and storage, changing the storage resource first.

• A
  93% (40)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  5% (2)

Explanation

Storage vMotion is the VMware feature that migrates a running virtual machine's storage files (VMDKs, config files) from one datastore to another, while the VM remains powered on and running on the same ESXi host.

A – 'Change storage only' is correct: This option moves only the VM's disk and configuration files to a different datastore without changing which ESXi host is running the VM. That is precisely the definition of Storage vMotion.

Why B is wrong: 'Change VM compute resource only' is standard vMotion (live migration). It moves the running memory state and CPU execution of the VM to a different ESXi host, but leaves the storage in place. No storage movement occurs.

Why C and D are wrong: Both options that change both the compute resource and storage describe Enhanced vMotion (also called combined migration). This simultaneously moves both the VM's running state to a new host and its storage to a new datastore in a single operation. Since the requirement is only to move storage, this would be unnecessary and incorrect.

Key distinction to remember:

• vMotion = compute moves, storage stays
• Storage vMotion = storage moves, compute stays
• Enhanced vMotion = both move simultaneously

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