CV0-003 · Question #113
A technician is converting a company's physical server to a virtual server. Which of the following should the technician do before migrating? (Select two.)
The correct answer is A. Assign server roles in the virtual environment. E. Ensure all applications are compatible in the virtual environment. Before migrating a physical server to a virtual environment, the technician must assign server roles in the target environment and verify application compatibility to prevent failures post-migration. These are planning and validation steps that must precede the actual migration.
Question
A technician is converting a company's physical server to a virtual server. Which of the following should the technician do before migrating? (Select two.)
Options
- AAssign server roles in the virtual environment.
- BPerform and verify a full system backup.
- CPerform and verify a full system snapshot.
- DInstall guest management tools.
- EEnsure all applications are compatible in the virtual environment.
How the community answered
(29 responses)- A76% (22)
- B14% (4)
- C7% (2)
- D3% (1)
Why each option
Before migrating a physical server to a virtual environment, the technician must assign server roles in the target environment and verify application compatibility to prevent failures post-migration. These are planning and validation steps that must precede the actual migration.
Assigning server roles in the virtual environment before migration ensures the hypervisor and virtual infrastructure are correctly configured to support the workload, preventing role-related misconfigurations or service failures immediately after cutover.
A full system backup, while best practice, is typically performed as part of the migration workflow rather than a pre-migration prerequisite focused on environment readiness and compatibility validation.
Snapshots are a virtual machine construct and cannot be created on a physical server; they are only applicable after the virtual machine has been created in the target environment.
Guest management tools such as VMware Tools or Hyper-V Integration Services are installed after the virtual machine is provisioned, not as a step before the physical-to-virtual migration is initiated.
Verifying application compatibility in the virtual environment is a critical pre-migration step because some applications have hardware driver or resource dependencies that may not function correctly under a hypervisor, and incompatibilities must be resolved before migration begins.
Concept tested: Physical-to-virtual server migration prerequisites
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCenter-Converter-Standalone/index.html
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