A working virtual machine (VM) is migrated to a new Port Group from an existing Port Group on the same switch. The VM loses network connectivity when the migration is completed. Which could be a reason for the lack of connectivity for the VM?

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A. The new Port Group is not configured with the same VLAN ID as the existing Port Group. Virtual switches use VLAN IDs to segment and tag traffic; if the new port group carries a different VLAN ID than the original, the VM's frames are tagged for the wrong VLAN and the upstream physical switch will not forward them to the correct network segment. This causes an immediate loss of connectivity without any other configuration change required.

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B. The Virtual Machine must be rebooted before the settings take effect. Port group assignments on a vSwitch take effect immediately at the hypervisor layer without requiring a VM reboot; the guest OS network stack is unaffected.

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C. The new Port Group is not configured with the same name as the existing Port Group. Port group names are purely administrative labels and have no bearing on traffic forwarding or network connectivity.

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D. The ESXi host must be rebooted before the settings take effect. Reassigning a VM's port group is a live operation on the virtual switch and does not require an ESXi host reboot to take effect.

A working virtual machine (VM) is migrated to a new Port Group from an existing Port Group on the same switch. The VM loses network connectivity when the migration is completed. Which could be a reaso

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