Chapter 8

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What type of disk is simply part of the space on a physical disk and appears to the VM as a physical hard disk drive?
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Virtual hard disk
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What is the captured image of the state, data, and hardware configuration of a VM at a particular moment in time?
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Checkpoint
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When choosing between disk types in the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, what type permits an image size up to 2 TB?
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VHD
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What Server Manager tool allows you to create a new virtual hard disk?
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Hyper-V Manager
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What tool can you use to modify a virtual hard disk?
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Use Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard in Hyper-V Manager in Server Manager
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What type of disk enables you to preserve an existing virtual disk image file in its original state, while mounting it in an OS and even modifying its contents?
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Differencing disk
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What does a differencing disk offer administrators?
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An opportunity to experiment with no changes committed to the parent image
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When configuring Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server 2012 R2, which of the following options ensures that one system does not consume input/output capacity of a physical disk?
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IOPS
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How does a SAN work with VMs in Windows Server 2012 R2?
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Hyper-V virtualizes the SAN and makes the WWNNs and WWPNs available to the VM.
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You need to build a virtual environment with several groups of identical OS installs. How do you accomplish this using minimal disk space?
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You clone VMs using differencing disks, pointing multiple VMs to the same parent image.
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What type of virtual disk points to a physical disk drive, rather than an area of space on a physical disk?
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Pass-through disk
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How do you give a VM exclusive access to a physical hard disk?
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Taking the disk offline in the parent OS, and then selecting the physical disk in the VM.
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Virtual SANs allow you to _______.
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eliminate the physical disks
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When creating a checkpoint file using Hyper-V Manager, what is the file format and where is it stored?
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The file has an AVHD or AVHDX extension, stored in the same folder as the virtual hard disk file.
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In Windows Server 2012 R2, what virtual image file provides for the largest size?
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VHDX files, up to 64 TB
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When creating a new virtual hard disk, what feature does Windows PowerShell offer that the graphical interface does not?
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You can specify the block size and the logical sector size.
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Why is a differencing disk beneficial?
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To maintain the parent image with no changes written to it.
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You intend to create a new virtual hard disk, specifying a 700 GB VHDX image file with a logical sector size of 4 KB. How do you proceed?
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With PowerShell, use the New-VHD cmdlet with appropriate parameters.
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You are using differencing disks for multiple virtual machines (VMs) to preserve the parent image from changes. Now you want to combine the two images together. What PowerShell cmdlet allows you to do this?
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Optimize-VHD
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If your company uses Hyper-V on Windows Server 2012 R2 and the older Virtual Server, what virtual image file format can you use on both hypervisor products?
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VHD
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Regarding the benefits of a SAN, what happens during a serverless backup?
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The server initiates the backup, but the server is not involved during the backup.
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Can you modify an existing virtual hard disk (VHD) file?
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Yes, you can even modify it without mounting it to a VM.
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Do VMs ever directly access a physical hard disk?
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Yes, virtual hard disks associate directly to the physical hard disks.
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The following PowerShell cmdlets are all valid for executing functions related to VHDs. Which cmdlet is used for compacting dynamic or differencing disks?
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Optimize-VHD