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A company has a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V server environment. The environment is managed with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2. You need to add a new dynamic…

The correct answer is B. Add a disk drive to the VM by using the New-VirtualDiskDrive PowerShell cmdlet. How to Add a Virtual Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 You can add a virtual hard disk to an IDE device or a SCSI adapter with the following procedure. By default, any…

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A company has a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V server environment. The environment is managed with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2. You need to add a new dynamic virtual hard disk (VHD) to an existing virtual machine (VM). What should you do?

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  • AAssign 1 GB of startup RAM and 4 GB of maximum RAM to the VM.
  • BAdd a disk drive to the VM by using the New-VirtualDiskDrive PowerShell cmdlet.
  • CAdd a synthetic network adapter to the VM and select the Enable virtual network optimizations
  • DInstall the server application on a physical server.
  • EAdd a synthetic network adapter to the VM and select the Enable spoofing of MAC addresses
  • FInstall the server application in a VM with the latest supported integration components.
  • GAssign 1 GB of startup RAM and 8 GB of maximum RAM to the VM.
  • HAdd a disk drive to the VM by using the iscsicli.exe command line tool.
  • JAdd an emulated network adapter to the VM and select the Enable virtual network

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  • A
    16% (5)
  • B
    72% (23)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • H
    3% (1)
  • J
    3% (1)

Explanation

How to Add a Virtual Hard Disk to a Virtual Machine Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 You can add a virtual hard disk to an IDE device or a SCSI adapter with the following procedure. By default, any hardware profile includes a built-in IDE drive. You can add and configure up to four virtual SCSI adapters to a virtual machine. Use this procedure when modifying a hardware profile or configuring hardware profile settings from the New Template Wizard or the New Virtual Machine Wizard. Note In VMM 2008 R2, if a virtual machine is deployed on a host that is using the Hyper-V implementation of the SCSI controller, you can add or remove a virtual hard disk or pass-through disk from the SCSI controller while the virtual machine is running. On all other storage configurations, you must stop the virtual machine before adding or removing a disk. To add a virtual hard disk To add a virtual hard disk, take one of the following actions: To add a virtual hard disk to an IDE bus, in the left pane, under Bus Configuration, click IDE Devices, and then click VHD on the top toolbar. To add a virtual hard disk to a SCSI bus, click SCSI Adapter on the top toolbar and then click VHD on the toolbar. Under Channel, select a channel to attach to this virtual hard disk. Under Virtual Hard Disk, select one of the following options: Use an existing virtual hard disk. Select this option if you want to add an existing virtual hard disk to the virtual machine. Click Browse to display the Select a virtual hard disk dialog box, and then select the virtual hard disk that you want to use from the list that displays on this screen. Create a new virtual hard disk (available on the hardware profile for a virtual machine). Select this option if you want to create a new virtual hard disk. Modify the values for the following Type. Select Dynamic (default) or Fixed. Size. Specify, in gigabytes (GB), the size of a fixed virtual hard disk or the maximum size of a dynamically expanding virtual hard disk. Destination file name. Specify the name of a new virtual hard disk.

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