Did you know you can make virtual disks on Windows? It’s a cool and underused feature that has been available in the OS since Windows 8. Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX ...

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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, ...

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 ...

• Clusters of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) are usefulto achieve application-level high availability. Clustering involves using shared storage, which provides fault tolerance and accessibility to ...

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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 ...

ImDisk Toolkit is one of those Windows freeware that any computer user should have on their system. The app is great for reserving a portion of a computer’s memory to be used as Virtual Hard Drive ...

How do you test Windows 11 for compatibility with essential apps without putting your work at risk? Simple: Use the built-in Hyper-V platform on your Windows 10 PC to create a virtual machine 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 ...

So I have this R630 that I'm trying to build out, and it's got the aforementioned PERC controller, nothing unusual. I can create and destroy virtual drives all day long, no issues, and I can even run ...