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. …

  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