A company has Windows Server 2012 R2 servers that have the Hyper-V role installed. The guest virtual machines are configured as follows: You need to ensure that the environment supports online…

The correct answer is C. Convert the drive format of the virtual machines to the VHDX file format. The following functionality is required for resizing a virtual hard disk: VHDX - the ability to expand and shrink virtual hard disks is exclusive to virtual hard disks that are using the .vhdx file format. Online resizing is supported for VHDX disk types, including fixed…

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A company has Windows Server 2012 R2 servers that have the Hyper-V role installed. The guest virtual machines are configured as follows: You need to ensure that the environment supports online virtual hard disk resizing. What should you do?

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AConvert the virtual machines to Generation 2 virtual machines.
BDeploy clustered storage spaces.
CConvert the drive format of the virtual machines to the VHDX file format.
DDeploy Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).

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The following functionality is required for resizing a virtual hard disk: VHDX - the ability to expand and shrink virtual hard disks is exclusive to virtual hard disks that are using the .vhdx file format. Online resizing is supported for VHDX disk types, including fixed, differencing, and dynamic disks. Virtual hard disks that use the .vhd file format are not supported for resizing operations.

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#online VHD resizing#VHDX format#virtual disk management#Generation 2 VM

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