What steps must you take?

You want to make a copy of a production Linux virtual machine in the US-Central region. You want to manage and replace the copy easily if there are changes on the production virtual machine. You will deploy the copy as a new instance in a different project in the US-East region.

What steps must you take?
A . Use the Linux dd and netcat commands to copy and stream the root disk contents to a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.
B . Create a snapshot of the root disk and select the snapshot as the root disk when you create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region.
C . Create an image file from the root disk with Linux dd command, create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region
D . Create a snapshot of the root disk, create an image file in Google Cloud Storage from the snapshot, and create a new virtual machine instance in the US-East region using the image file the root disk.

Answer: D