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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The release of V-locity ® 3, Diskeeper Corporation's virtual platform disk optimizer, includes the first ever online function for zeroing free space. This powerful engine zeros out unused data blocks ...

Without any sort of major fuss or media blitz, VMware released a 1.0 version of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). The VMware VDDK is an open API and SDK that enables VMware customers and ...

EaseUS Disk Copy 7.0.0 is now available for download on the official EaseUS website, with full support for Windows operating ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

I have been using Hyper-V since it was first released with Windows Server 2008. As far as I can remember, during that time I have never run into a situation in which a virtual machine completely ran ...

I have some software (written in-house) that I want to run in a Hyper-V VM, hosted on Win11 Pro. The VM is running Win10 Pro. The software licensing fails, because it can't see a hdd model or serial ...