VCP-VVF Troubleshoot And Optimize Practice Question
An administrator is troubleshooting a storage migration (Storage vMotion) failure between two datastores in a vSphere Foundation 9.0 environment. Which THREE conditions or checks should be verified before attempting the migration again? (Choose three.)
Answer choices
Why each option matters
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Correct answer & explanation
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The destination datastore must have sufficient free capacity to accommodate the virtual machine's thick-provisioned or thin-provisioned footprint.
Storage vMotion requires destination datastore space, compatible host access to both source and destination datastores, network connectivity for disk data transfer over VMkernel migration/vMotion networks, and no unsupported disk formats (e.g., raw RDMs in physical compatibility mode without conversion).
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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The virtual machine must be powered off for any Storage vMotion operation to succeed.
Why it's wrong here
Storage vMotion can be performed while the VM is powered on (online migration).
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The destination datastore must have sufficient free capacity to accommodate the virtual machine's thick-provisioned or thin-provisioned footprint.
Why this is correct
Space validation is mandatory; insufficient free space causes the migration task to fail immediately.
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Both the source and destination hosts must have active storage accessibility (paths) to both datastores during the migration phase.
Why this is correct
During Storage vMotion, the host reads from the source and writes to the destination simultaneously, requiring paths to both datastores.
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The physical switch port channel must be reconfigured to trunk the new datastore LUN IDs.
Why it's wrong here
Physical switches do not trunk LUN IDs; LUNs are block storage entities accessed via FC or iSCSI/NVMe.
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The VM must not have snapshot files larger than 2TB if using older VMFS versions, and disk formats must be supported.
Why this is correct
Snapshot chains and disk configurations must be supported by the migration engine (e.g., physical RDMs cannot be migrated without converting to VMDK).
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Last reviewed August 2026 · checked against the official VMware exam blueprint
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