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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

When adding storage from a SAN to a virtual machine, which is better, adding it as a virtual disk or using raw device mappings? Or is it dependent upon the situation? Does the method used come into ...

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 ...

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, ...

• Thin provisioning was initially introduced at the storage level. However, recently VMware and Hyper V introduced thin provisioning at the Hypervisor level. Storage virtual provisioning gives an ...

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 ...