When talking about storage in Hyper-V, the first term that comes to mind is likely to be VHDs. These versatile files act as hard disks and store your valuable data. Hyper-V supports both VHD and VHDX, which we addressed in Chapter 3, Configuring and Implementing Storage, when we described storage in Windows Server 2016. Hyper-V supports different VHD and VHDX types:
- Fixed size: As the name implies, the size of the disk is determined at the moment of creation and its size does not change. This type of disk allocates storage space that is equal to its nominal size, regardless of how much actual virtual disk space you are using. For example, if you create a 100-GB fixed-size virtual disk, it will occupy 100 GB of storage space even if the virtual disk does not store any files. The advantage of these kinds of disks is that the storage space allocated is...