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E20-891 · Question #94
You are designing a backup solution for a large VMware environment. You are planning to use snapshot technology to backup the virtual machines but management has expressed concerns over how long the…
The correct answer is A. Schedule the backups to occur when there is little I/O on the virtual machine datastore. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
You are designing a backup solution for a large VMware environment. You are planning to use snapshot technology to backup the virtual machines but management has expressed concerns over how long the snapshots will take to create. What is a way to reduce the time it takes to create a snapshot?
Options
- ASchedule the backups to occur when there is little I/O on the virtual machine datastore
- BMake sure at least 20% free space exists on the datastore where the virtual machine resides
- CUse Raw Device Mappings to ensure the backup server is able to have direct access
- DEnsure snapshots are taken of all datastores the virtual machine is using for virtual disks
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- B6% (1)
- C6% (1)
- D17% (3)
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