An administrator needs to migrate a legacy physical application server to a virtual machine within a vSphere 6 cluster. As part of the conversion, the administrator must reduce the size of the virtual disks. What action should the administrator take to create a virtual machine with smaller virtual disks than the original physical server?

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D. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the file level. Hot cloning with file-level volume-based cloning allows VMware Converter to copy individual files to the destination VM rather than duplicating raw disk blocks, which enables specifying a smaller target virtual disk size. File-level cloning reorganizes data into the reduced destination space during the conversion process. Hot cloning also keeps the source physical server online throughout the conversion, avoiding unnecessary downtime.

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A. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based Cold cloning with block-level volume cloning copies raw disk sectors in a 1:1 manner, which prevents reducing the destination disk size below the original physical disk size.

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B. Use VMware Converter hot cloning with volume-based cloning at the block level. Block-level hot cloning duplicates raw disk blocks directly and cannot reorganize or reduce the target virtual disk size below the original physical disk size.

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C. Shut down the physical server and use VMware Converter cold cloning with volume-based Cold cloning requires shutting down the source server, introducing unnecessary downtime when hot cloning is available, and block-level cloning still prevents disk size reduction because it duplicates raw sectors.

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