An IT team wants to convert a physical server into a virtual machine image to run in their lab environment. What technique is this called?

• A. V2V
• B. P2P
• C. P2V
• D. P2M

Answer: (C)

Converting a physical server into a virtual machine image is a physical-to-virtual migration. This process creates a VM that replicates the original server’s operating system, applications, and data so it can run on a hypervisor in a lab environment. It enables you to test and experiment without the physical hardware, and it’s typically done with P2V migration tools that capture the physical disk and convert it into a virtual disk with a VM configuration.

The other options describe different ideas: moving between virtual machines (V2V) isn’t about physical hardware, and peer-to-peer networking (P2P) isn’t related to migration. The term P2M isn’t the standard way to describe this scenario, and moving from virtual to physical would be V2P (or similarly phrased).