Virtual hard disks are typically associated with virtual machines and used to store the guest OS and all its data. But VHDs work brilliantly outside virtual machines, too. They are ideal for creating ...

While installing an OS on Hyper-V virtual machine, you might come across an error saying The Virtual Machine Management service encountered an error while configuring ...

With the massive sizes of Hyper-V VMs, it might be a good idea to put a hard cap on how large they can grow to. When you create a new virtual machine using the Hyper-V Manager, the virtual hard disk ...

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 ...

VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced that its virtual machine disk format specification for defining and formatting virtual ...

The LUN has long been a bedrock of storage configuration for physical servers with LUN storage partitions carved out from Raid groups to provide logical chunks of capacity for applications. Now, ...

Realtime Publishers, the leading provider of expert, third-partyindependent content for the IT market has issued a new e-bookentitled “Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS”.Authored by IT ...

Hyper-V checkpoint is a useful feature in a Hyper-V virtual environment. You may get the error prompt with the message and code Virtual machine could not initiate a ...

What is a virtual machine? A virtual machine (VM) is software that runs programs or applications without being tied to a physical machine. In a VM instance, one or more guest machines can run on a ...

Are you getting a virtual disk service error when trying to run DiskPart? This can be a very frustrating issue, but luckily it is easy to fix. In this article, I will ...