In this post, we will see how to shrink and compact hard disks in Hyper-V. This allows you to make room for the hard disks if they are too big for your physical computer. Since Hyper-V hard disks are ...

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 ...

Storage Spaces (not to be confused with Storage Spaces Direct) has been a part of Windows Server since the days of Windows Server 2012, and provides an easy way for you to create software-defined ...

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 ...

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 ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...