A technician needs to provide a VM with high availability. Which of the following actions should the technician take to complete this task as efficiently as possible?

The correct answer is A. Take a snapshot of the original VM. Taking a snapshot (A) is the most efficient way to protect a VM and enable rapid recovery. A snapshot captures the VM's disk state, memory, and configuration at a specific point in time. If the VM encounters a failure, the administrator can quickly revert to the last known-good…

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ATake a snapshot of the original VM
BClone the original VM
CConvert the original VM to use dynamic disks
DPerform a P2V of the original VM

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A
91% (21)
B
4% (1)
C
4% (1)

Explanation

Taking a snapshot (A) is the most efficient way to protect a VM and enable rapid recovery. A snapshot captures the VM's disk state, memory, and configuration at a specific point in time. If the VM encounters a failure, the administrator can quickly revert to the last known-good snapshot, minimizing downtime - which is the essence of high availability in this context. Cloning (B) creates a full duplicate of the VM but requires more time and storage, and the clone is a separate VM, not a recovery mechanism for the original. Converting to dynamic disks (C) changes storage allocation behavior and does not improve availability. P2V (D) converts a physical machine to a virtual one, which is a migration task unrelated to HA for an existing VM.

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#Virtual Machine#High Availability#Snapshots#VM Management

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