For the
first part of the question:-
- Copying the VM
basically means Cloning i.e. creating another copy of the existing
virtual machines.Here, we need to create 5 copies of the existing
VM named TEST-ALPHA
- The VM copies are
directly created and there is no need to perform installation
again. It preserves the current system i.e. the Windows Server 2019
OS
- Hyper-V
offers three import types, here we use the copy VM type.Copy the
virtual machine – We need to select a location for the VM to copy
them. The copied VM has a new unique ID. This allows the VM to be
imported to the same host multiple times.
The steps that need to be followed
are:
- As
stated, first you shut down the VM.This is because copying a virtual machine while it is
running creates a copy that may not boot
- Next
step is to rght click the existing VM in Hyper-V manager console
and select ‘Export’:
- Specify the location where you want to save the
exported VM.Click on Browse button to select a folder.Click
Export and wait until the exporting process is
finished
- Now,
we import the saved VM files depending on the number of copies
created
- Then
we select the import type, which here is Copy the virtual
machine
- Finally we specify a
folder location to store the virtual machines file. We must
preferrably specify a folder location which is different from
virtual hard disks of source virtual machine.
For the
second part of the question:-
VMware HA and DRS are tools that help to provide high
availability for crucial applications
- VMware HA can be used in order to optimize and balance high
amount of workloads.
- It is a technology that protects system in case of a a host
failure.
- If the host VM fails, then the VM is automatically restarted on
another host or a seconadary host. This helps to save time and no
data is lost.
- The tool helps in fault tolerance for VMs that run
critical workloads for your organization. If the host fails, it can
automatically switch to another VM. This is done using monitoring
of hosts within a resource pool.