One of the Hyper-V features that I have found to be the most helpful over the years is the Edit Virtual Hard Disk Wizard. This wizard, which you can see in Figure 1, has the ability to expand a ...

Once I got the role installed (and fixed the multitude of disk problems), I thought I’d give Hyper-V a try with a Virtual Hard Drive built on the previous top-of-the-line platform, Virtual Server 2005 ...

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 ...

Most IT managers will agree that Microsoft Hyper-V has some catching up to do with the VMware hypervisor when it comes to the management and flexibility of handling large virtual machine (VM) ...

I'm interpreting the declaration of what is unsupported as non-VDI VHD workloads or dissimilar VHD workloads that are live. It also appears that the lack of support is only referring to a performance ...

IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...