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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
Book Image

Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

VHD and VHDX


In Chapter 3, Deploying Virtual Machines, we looked at the various virtual machine files, and briefly looked at the definition of the virtual hard disk files, namely VHD and VHDX. VHD is the old flag bearer for Microsoft virtualization ever since the days of virtual PC and virtual server. The same was enhanced and employed in early Hyper-V releases. However, as a file-based storage that gets mounted as a normal storage for a virtual machine, VHD had its limitations. VHDX, a new feature addition to Windows Server 2012, was built further upon the limitations of its predecessor and provides greater storage capacity, support for large sector disks, and better protection against corruption. In the current release of Windows Server 2012 R2, VHDX has been bundled with more ammo.

VHDX packed a volley of feature enhancements when it was initially launched, and with Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft only made it better. If we compare the older, friendlier version of VHD with VHDX, we can...