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Merge differencing and parent vhd into new vhd

Using DISKPART and the "VDISK MERGE" option, is it possible to specify that you want to keep the existing child/parent disks and do a merge into a new vhd file? That is; I still want to keep my original child/parent disks. As far as I can tell from…
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Changing maximum file size of vhds

I am native booting into vhd files. While creating the parent vhd file I set the maximum file size to 50GB however I never install so many applications. 20GB maximum will be enough for me but I want to change this setting on existing parent vhd file…
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Should my servers boot from VHD?

I've been testing native vhd boot on several servers. It seems to be pretty transparent in terms of deployment and with my seat of the pants testing I have not noticed any difference in performance. The main reason that I want to boot vhd is due…
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Restoring VM's in Hyper-V from a (somewhat) failed VSS backup

I attempted to do a backup of our virtualization server when moving from Hyper-V 2008 to R2. I changed the registry settings to register Hyper-V VSS with Windows Server Backup, and sent the backup on it's way while I went on to other things. …
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Create and Utilize a Vista VHD via Windows 7

I have a windows 7 base install and a windows 7 vhd. I am attempting to create the scenario where when I boot up I have the option of loading the windows 7 base, the windows 7 vhd or a vista vhd. I used virtual PC to create a vista vhd and then…
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Cannot mount Win10 virtual disk (VHD) with no volumes - DISKPART fail

I'm attempting to mount a Windows Image Backup .vhdx file and give it a drive letter so that I can retrieve a file or two out of the backup. It has worked fine in the past, but now I cannot make it work with either of two backups from two separate…
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How to convert Linux ISO into VHD für Azure

I have a Custom ISO inside a Blob Storage-Account and want to convert this file into a VHD to create a Azure-VM. Is there a official tutorial for it? Google is not a big help.
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Azure uploaded VHD storage

I'll preface this with being very new to Azure and I'm tying to learn as I go along here. With Azure, I've uploaded a vhd image to a storage account, made an image out of that (which shows as a link to the file in the storage account) and finally…
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Hyper V vhd sizes and disk space?

Hopefully there is a simple answer to this but its something I dont understand right now. 5 days ago I colocated a windows server 2008 r2. It has running on it a Hyper-v with pretty much only IIS7 and filezilla server. The last 4 days I have spent…
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Mounted VHD gives access denied during file copy

I want to copy files from VM to another. I'm running windows 2008 on the VM Manager. Both machines are Server 2012. I tuned them both off. Mounted the VHDs to the manger pc. I can see the both files and folders, but cannot copy. I want to move files…
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VHD with 3 partitions and 3 operating systems. How to split?

Got a guy on the other side of Earth who needs a sole partition off of a vhd so he can do his job. The entire vhd is over 490gb. The 1 partition is about 80. So I want to split the the vhd up into its 3 partitions. A vhd file for every…
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Why the VHD file for OS Disk of a virtual machine is not in Azure Blob container

I tested with creating a resource group, a storage account (Standard and Premium in seperate tests) and a Ubuntu VM, and then used Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer to locate the VHD file. From various articles, such as this (…
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Save OS .vhd for later installation

One of my system administrator had an virtual machine (of Win 7 OS) that we used as a testing OS. Now if we need to have a fresh machine, she used to give that very quickly w/o installing the OS again. Somehow she used to have a saved .vhd or…
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