VMware vSphere 8.x Professional — Question 47

An administrator is performing maintenance activities and discovers that a Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) datastore has a lot more used capacity than expected. The datastore contains 10 virtual machines (VMs) and, when the administrator reviews the contents of the associated datastore, discovers that five virtual machines have a snapshot file (-delta.vmdk files) that has not been modified in over 12 months. The administrator checks the Snapshot Manager within the vSphere Client and confirms that there are no snapshots visible.
Which task should the administrator complete on the virtual machines to free up datastore space?

Answer options

• A. Consolidate the snapshots for each VM.
• B. Inflate the disk files for each VM.
• C. Delete all snapshots for each VM.
• D. Storage vMotion each VM to another datastore.

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct action is to consolidate the snapshots for each VM because it combines the snapshot data with the base disk, thus freeing up space. The other options are not applicable since there are no visible snapshots to delete, inflating disk files does not address the issue of space caused by snapshots, and Storage vMotion would simply move the VMs without resolving the underlying issue of snapshot space usage.