We implemented a vSphere at the beginning of the year using a VNXe3100 as the storage device presented to the servers. The initial plan was to get it up and running and migrate some of the lower end ...

I have been using Hyper-V since it was first released with Windows Server 2008. As far as I can remember, during that time I have never run into a situation in which a virtual machine completely ran ...

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 ...

Disk2Vhd is a little Microsoft utility that does one thing and one thing well: convert physical computers to virtual disks. One of the reasons that virtual machines took off in the past decade or so ...

If you’re a fan of VMware, then you’re used to its familiar GUI tools. However, you may never have checked out the contents of the C:\Program Files\VMware Workstation folder after installing the ...

Chris: I created several virtual machines with pre-allocated virtual hard disk files. I did this because I had heard that performance was better. However, my system's hard drive is about out of space ...

If we want to convert a Physical Machine to a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox, we need first to change the physical hard drive to a virtual one using a free utility called Disk2vhd. Then, since ...

Microsoft operating system virtualization products such as Virtual Server, Virtual PC, and Hyper-V support both dynamically-expanding and fixed-size virtual hard disks (VHDs). With the ...

Microsoft recently updated the Sysinternals Suite of applications with a new component designed to help users create a virtual hard disk (VHD) version of their physical disks. The new ...