A common way to attach a virtual hard disk to a virtual machine is via the Hyper-V Manager. But, as Brien shows, you can use PowerShell instead. Recently, I have been spending some time coming up with ...

If you use Hyper-V as a server virtualization platform, you might have noticed physical storage space being depleted more quickly than it should be. In this article, I am going to show you two reasons ...

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While browsing the r/Windows10 subreddit, I remember someone asking if virtual hard disks (VHDs) offered free and additional storage. It gave me a chuckle (if only it worked that way!), but honestly, ...

So, after digging around and around, I discovered that Workstation 6.5 has a maximum virtual disk size of ~1TB. Did they increase this at all in 7? It's not really a touted feature, but it wasn't very ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

For all the capabilities that virtual machine disk files bring to the IT table, there is one issue that stands out to me that sometimes makes my life difficult - virtual hard disk format compatibility ...

Xvdd or Xen Virtual Disk D are virtual storage drives or disks used in virtualization environments like games or specific software, facilitating data storage for virtual systems. Small Computer System ...

VMDK, VHDX, and VHD are file formats of Virtual drives. They are unique and unlike other files, you can not just double-click on them to open the file. This is a complete guide on how to open VMDK, ...

Microsoft warns that a newly acknowledged issue can lead to data loss when resetting virtual disks using the Server Manager management console. Server Manager helps IT admins manage Windows-based ...

So I have this R630 that I'm trying to build out, and it's got the aforementioned PERC controller, nothing unusual. I can create and destroy virtual drives all day long, no issues, and I can even run ...