One of the Hyper-V features that I have found to be the most helpful over the years is the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard. This wizard, which you can see in Figure 1, has the ability to expand a ...

Once I got the role installed (and fixed the multitude of disk problems), I thought I’d give Hyper-V a try with a Virtual Hard Drive built on the previous top-of-the-line platform, Virtual Server 2005 ...

Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 introduce a new virtual hard disk file format, VHDX, which is an upgrade from the current VHD format and provides for superior performance, reliability and several ...

I'm looking at a 5.5TB RAID enclosure that I need to connect to one of my VMs that's running Data Protection Manager. I can create it as a SCSI device and passthrough to the DPM VM or I can create a ...

Which virtual disk format (fixed, dynamic or pass-through) is the right choice for your environment? We've got answers and some great maintenance tips. Choosing the right format for the right scenario ...

Some of you seem confused about how Windows 7 goes about supporting .VHD files as used by Virtual PC, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Here's a quick how-to work with .VHD files in Windows 7. OK, ...

One of the main sticking points with learning Hyper-V is getting your head around the Clustered Shared Volumes technique to provide .VHD files on a SAN to multiple Hyper-V hosts. The CSV technique is ...

I'm interpreting the declaration of what is unsupported as non-VDI VHD workloads or dissimilar VHD workloads that are live. It also appears that the lack of support is only referring to a performance ...