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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are getting Hyper-V encountered an error while copying virtual hard disks to destination folder while importing a virtual machine, check out these tips to get ...

Although most IT pros strive for perfection, we all make mistakes once in a while. Sometimes those mistakes are harmless, teachable moments. Other times Murphy's Law rears its ugly head and a ...

one of the guests has slow file opening/saving performance over the network. There's a 4x disk raid 5 array as a second disk in the host that stores the file shares for the two guests as a seperate ...