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 ...

Microsoft recently updated the Sysinternals Suite of applications with a new component designed to help users create a virtual hard disk (VHD) version of their physical disks. The new ...

Are you getting a virtual disk service error when trying to run DiskPart? This can be a very frustrating issue, but luckily it is easy to fix. In this article, I will ...

In my experience, Windows Storage Spaces tends to be reliable and typically behaves in a predictable manner. On a couple of occasions, however, I have encountered problems related to detached virtual ...

Like some competing hypervisors, vSphere allows virtual hard disks to be encrypted. One of the most important things to understand about encryption in vSphere 6.5 is that virtual disk encryption and ...

We’ve shown you how to go about installing the new Windows 8 developer preview on a brand-new hard drive or a partition of your existing hard drive–that’s easy. However, most of you probably just want ...

Got a Windows, Exchange or virtualization question or need troubleshooting help? Or maybe you want a better explanation than provided in the manuals? Describe your dilemma in an e-mail to the ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...