Category: Virtualization Storage

• Drive Space Nightmares with Hyper-V

  As you know, I have been using Hyper-V since before it was released, and am a huge proponent of the solution (although I am also a huge proponent of VMware).  The fact that Hyper-V is also included in Windows 10 makes my life easier – I use it on my Windows Client for several reasons.  […]

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  Mitch Garvis

  May 19, 2016

  VHD Files, VHDX Files, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

• When I’m Sixty-Four… TERABYTES!

  Okay, I am asking for a show of hands: How many of you remember 100MB hard drives? 80? 40?  While I remember smaller, my first hard drive was a 20 Megabyte Seagate drive.  Note that I didn’t say Gigabytes… Way back then the term Terabyte might have been coined already as a very theoretical term, […]

  Mitch Garvis

  October 4, 2012

  Storage, VHD Files, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Cluster Shared Volumes, Hyper-V, Hyper-V 2012, Microsoft, Storage area network, Terabyte, VHD, Windows Server, Windows Server 2012

• Virtual Hard Disks: Best Practices for dynamic / thin provisioned disks and other stories…

    Virtual environments offer us many new options with regard to storage.  Whether you are using Hyper-V or VMware, a few of the options (and recommendations) are the same, even when the terms are different. One of the options I am often asked about is dynamically expanding hard drives.  MY first reaction is that I […]

  Mitch Garvis

  June 21, 2012

  Dynamically Expanding, Raw Device Maps, Storage, Virtualization, Virtualization Storage

  Microsoft, Microsoft Hyper-V, Storage area network, USB, USB flash drive, Virtual disk image, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere