What are three recommended prerequisites before upgrading virtual machine hardware? (Choose three.)

Creating a backup or snapshot provides a rollback point in case the hardware upgrade causes compatibility issues or VM instability, which is a critical safety prerequisite before any irreversible upgrade.

VMware Tools must be upgraded to the latest version before upgrading VM hardware because newer virtual hardware versions require a matching or newer Tools version to expose updated virtual devices correctly.

VMware requires the virtual machine to reside on a supported datastore type such as VMFS3, VMFS5, or NFS to ensure the VM's upgraded disk format and configuration files can be stored and accessed without issues.

Detaching CD-ROM or ISO images is not listed as a required prerequisite for VM hardware upgrades in VMware documentation; the compatibility upgrade process can proceed with optical devices still attached.

Manually setting the virtualHW.version advanced parameter is not a prerequisite - the hardware upgrade process automatically sets the appropriate version value, and manually editing this parameter is not a supported procedure.