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 configure the environment to support the creation…

The correct answer is A. Convert the data drives to use the VHDX file format. Shared virtual hard disk functionality in guest failover clusters exclusively uses the .vhdx file format. Although the shared virtual hard disk must use the .vhdx file format for the data drive, the operating system disk for a virtual machine can use either the .vhd or the…

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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 configure the environment to support the creation of failover clusters. What should you do?

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AConvert the data drives to use the VHDX file format.
BConvert the operating system drive to use the virtual hard disk (VHD) file format.
CConvert the virtual machines to Generation 2 virtual machines.
DUpgrade the operating system to Windows Server 2012 R2.

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C
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D
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Explanation

Shared virtual hard disk functionality in guest failover clusters exclusively uses the .vhdx file format. Although the shared virtual hard disk must use the .vhdx file format for the data drive, the operating system disk for a virtual machine can use either the .vhd or the .vhdx file format. Generation 1 and Generation 2 virtual machines are supported in a guest failover cluster using a shared virtual hard disk.

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