One aspect of Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 that seems to confuse people is the concept of virtual disks. While virtual disks are certainly not new, Windows Server uses virtual disks in two ...

Although I have abandoned most of my on-premise production servers in favor of Office 365, I do have a single file server that I use to store all of the stuff that I write, my business records and ...

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Windows Virtual PC creates virtual disks for each guest operating system created in the application. Virtual PC stores these disks in individual virtual hard disk -- or VHD -- files. To enable Windows ...

One of my absolute favorite features of Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V is the VHDX disk file format. This new virtual disk format goes up to 64 TB and is the answer to many storage challenges for ...

Windows super-sleuth Long Zheng keeps his eye on the Microsoft jobs listings and discovers some information about a potential new feature for the thus far super-secretive Windows 7 OS - native support ...

Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

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 ...

For more information, and a download, visit VersionTracker's Parallels Workstation product page. No way to migrate Virtual PC disks One MacFixIt reader inquired about migration of Virtual PC Windows ...

VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) is a file format that represents a virtual hard disk drive (HDD). It may contain what is found on a physical HDD, such as disk partitions and a file system, which in turn can ...